The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 08, 1890, Image 1
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VOL. IV
TIL4: ltrOOKHT Til I N<? YKT.
A Combination of Capital to
Dictate tlio Price of Attricultural
Products.
Columbia Register.
Ami now a scheme called (he
Farmers' Co-operative Brotherhood
of the Tinted States is afoot. The
scheme involves an organization with
an authorized capital of fifty millions
of dollars, divided into one
million shares. The author of this
mighty project is fieorge A. Williams
of Chicago, who was horn and
brought up on a farm.
The shares of the company are to
be sold to the farmers at $50 to the
share, no man to hold more than
one, and this vast sum will be controlled
in order to dictate the price
of gtain. It is not proposed to indulge
in speculation; the farmors
will not run "corners" or bulge
prices, the object being to secure to
the tillers of the soil a reasonable return
for tlicit labor and investment.
Mr. Williams says that he does
not see why the scheme should not
he successful, lie says he is a practical
farmer, horn and raised on a
farm, and that it is not many years
since lie left the farm. ILo says the
farmer is the very poorest paid man
in the world, and that he is the only
man in the world who has nothing
to say as to what his goods shall
he worth; but when he has millions
at his hack, when he becomes a cohesive
political power, things will be
changed. The Brotherhood is not
to be a p? litieal organization, but
when it gets fairly into operation it
will make itself felt.
There have been no steps taken yet
beyond the fact of incorporation.
Mr. Williams says big things move
slow, ami lie does not hope to
got the fifty millions at once, but
that they will get half the amount,
or twenty live millions, to be deposited
in some strong Chicago bank,
and used as the emergency may require.
The idea is to control the corn
market. It is said that as there are
but live States which grow corn to
any extent?Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska?it ought not
to be a diflicult thing to control the
corn market. With this vast sum
of money in hand it would not be a
hard task to dictate the price of
corn so as to secure the farmer a fair
return for his investment.
Speaking of the constitution, Mr.
Williams savs whilst it may bo
amended, it is now what it substantially
always will be: an organization
the object of which will be self-protection?protection
against monop
olies and other combinations. The
constitution provides that any one
who is a farmer or renter or personally
engage in farming may become
a member of the organization bv
paying one dollar. There will he a
president, three vice-presidents, two
secretaries, a general in chief, an attorney,
a treasurer and board directors.
There will be a different treasurer
for each kind of grain?wheat,
outs and corn?with a loan department,
a storage department and a
purchasing department, each presided
over by a chief and all under control
of the general in chief. The
board of directors will have general
charge and elect all officers. There
is to be ii head man in each County
in ever\ State in which the Brotherhood
has a membership. This head
man will report monthly the condition
of the crops and the grain in
the hands of the Brotherhood. This
general in chief has superintendence
of all the departments. Delegates
from each County elect the board of
directors. 'IMiis board of directors
liv the price farmers should get for
their products. Kvery member of
the Brotherhood has the right to
sell his grain to whom he sees lit,
so long as the price is not lower than
the minimum fixed and is satisfactory
to the Brotherhood. Should
the price be lower than that fixed,
then the member is pledged to give
the Brotherhood the preference at
the price offered by others, or to l>orrow
the money and hold the grain.
It is not proposed that the Brotherhood
should hold any more grain
Milan can he helped, though it will
have to hold some, and for that*purpose,
it will establish elevators in
the principal cities. A farmer's grain
will bo bought only in ease that he
is obliged to sell and does not wish
v to borrow money of this Brotherhood
in order to hold and the market.
price is below the price fixed.
When a member of the Brotherhood
desires to obtain money on his
grain and the market price is below
the established figure, he will receive
four-fifths of the cash price delivered
to the order of the Brotherhood,
the producer paying six per
vent, on the use of the money.
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[should the price advance, half of J'
the advj>.v~> goes ti> tho farmer and 11
the other half to the Brotherhood.!]
The Brotherhood takes a hill of saleL
of the grain us security, and will he !
considered us having ownership of
the same as soon as the money is ad- 1
vanced upon it. *
The Brotherhood will provide;
suitable storage in all places where
grain can In* shipped, and will see '
to it, that only reasonable rates of 1
transportation ^tre charged on shipments,
a special committee being
charged with this duty.
Every member who sells his grain ^
io Home one eise man me isroinrrhood
at a Icsh price than that fixed '
without giving notice to the I troth- 1
erhood, will be fined $5 for the first i
offense, ?25 for the second offense,''
and forfeit half the value of the
grain sold for the third, besides los- (
ing his lneinbership and its rights; 4
provided thai a member is not liable1)
to a line if he has previously notified
the Brotherhood of the intended
sale and it is not in a position to 1
accept the grain.
One-half of all interest receipts,!'
profits on advances, etc., are to be I
set aside to cover the guarantees of
the Brotherhood on their bonds or j
loans, < he same to be invested by the
boards of directors in bonds or se- '
euritios or real estate. The of her j
half will be used in building ware- i
houses and elevators. Whatever balance
there may be will be credited
to fhe membership fund and paid to (
the members every five years as 4
earned profits. I
All this looks very wild, but, in .
view of what has been done by cooperat
ive associaf ions in certain Kit-|
ropean States, and what has been 1
done in this country by our labor 1
organizations, it is not an actual ini- 1
possibility. Vet it would seem that ]
i to protect a thousand million dollars j
i worth of grain with fifty million isr
scarcely rational. It would be like | f
a planter protecting the sale of a|{
thousand dollar's worth of cotton j (
with $50 in bank. Hut there is this ,
wide difference: that a great fund j
made up in one effective aggregation
is large enough to exercise an appro- 1
ciable effect at one given time, and
upon the sale of produce as occasion |
permits! the same held by way of .
protection, may be repeatedly used
.during the market season.
If this scheme should avail any- '
thing, 5 per cent, of our cotton crop, i
say of three hundred million hales, j
or some $15,000,000, thus banked, |
may protect the price of cotton in
the market. Hut we shall see.
Wliat nrc the Farmers to Do? j
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baptist Courier.
Produce of all kinds is low, and
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the markets are dull. There is more
food raised than can be eaten by men
aniTthe domestic animals. The re- !
suit is that the farmer doesn't get
enough to pay his family expenses
and his taxes. We hear the complaint
on all sides that our business
has ceased to be profitable, ami that
that there is little prospect for any '
improvement in the future. The in- '
creased production of the necessaries .
of life keeeps in advance of the in- '
crease of population. j
We were talking this matter over |
at the blacksmith shop the other (
dav. and it was ainii?in<r ilia
-- ,
; variety and contrariety of opinions.
Some thought the trouble was with |
the tariff, and that free trade would
|be an unfailing panacea. Others (
thought there was too much farming |
machinery, which enables a few men
I to cultivate farms of one thousand i
acres, and so glut the market. I I
listened in silence for some time. At
j 1
i last they asked my opinion. I frank*
lv confessed that 1 hadn't, any to
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give. The facts are undisputed. We i
I have been bringing millions of acres
under cultivation within a few past (
years. It is virgin soil, and, of!,
course; produces heavy crops. The
| railroads push out into the'prairies ]
to take the crops to market, and thus (
i encourage the cultivation of more
I n i
land. And so matters have gone ^
ion, and are going on, to increase our ^
surplus and depress prices. There j
will l?f? it rnn/>tinn af oiling" II..
I.. - - - ./V ?? * X MWIVIij "fc * VUI HV . I I IIman
affairs always swing like a penjdulum.
Hut will not very reaction
ruin many of the* farmers? Those
who can worry through until, by the
operation of the law of supply anil
demand, the production of cereals
! comes down to the consumption, or
I the consumption increases until it
J equals tne production,
will do well enough. And the
question is: How can we worry
through? I see only one way. We
j muet economize. We must keep out
j of debt. We mmst raise all of our
supplies that we can, and buy only
what is absolutely neccsssary. if
the butcher's bill is high wc must
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ON WAY, S. C?
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*aiso our own mutton; and s? with,
uany other things. Wo have departed
largely from the system of diversified
farming which prevailed
ifty years ago. Our futhers did not
luive a great deal to sell; but t hey
lid not buy near as much as we do.
\ little money with thorn wont a
great ways. The lived plainly, of
ourse, but they kept out of debt,
iiul gradually improved their farms
md their homes. Wo have had sealitllk!
<?f Vi nltilnuf it I n rlM?-v..
,UMU n V1IMV 1 III |iiua|ni II )> lll*>
liuvc tempted us to habits of extravigancc.
Let us conic down to bed
rock, be patient and saving for a
rear or two, and all those matters
n il! regulate themselves. The outmine
does not depend upon Congress
>r the railroads, but. on the farmers
hemsolvos.
Sknkn Smith.
WHAT HOTAXY T1CACII ICS.
rile True Difference ltd wren
Fruits anil Vegetables.
Among the infinite variety of
forms into which the different parts
ind organs of plants are developed,
ive find some of onr choicest and most
valuable fruit products. The haves
)f many plants, like the lettuce,
hicory, dandelion, parsley, etc., are I
argelv consumed as salad or cooked
r> .
is greens. In celery, we do not eat
lie leaf, hut an abnormally thicken'd
petiole, or stock, and asparagus
leads are the young shoots gathered
icfore they develoji into branches.
It is highly necessary for the preservation
of a plant that its seeds j
should la* spread widely over the
ground, and we find that the fully
leveloped seeds of many plants are
unrounded by a pericarp of subdances
attractive and palatable to
i..
1111 ma i ft.
In (lie apple and quince, the calyx
leaves and receptacle become altered
mil fleshy, to form the edible part of
the fruit. The stra\vl>erry is not a
true berry at all, for the fruit is not
( ripened pistil, but an enlarged and
lleshy receptacle, or extremity of the
[lower stalk, thickly dotted over
with the minute ripened o\arics containg
the seed and usually mistaken
for the seeds themselves. The tig,
ilso, consist of such an enlarged re[jeptaee,
but it has been, as it were,
turned inside out and the seed-like
ovaries are on the inside. A ripensd
rose-hip shows the same structure
in a lesser degree.
Mulberries and pineapples consist
sf the ripened products of many
[lowers, placed on a common recep-1
tacle, which is itself a part of the j
idible mass. The gaulthcria or
jheckerberry is not a berrv, but the
thickened calyx of the flower, which,
incloses a dry pod containing the
ieed. The true berry is a permanently
closed, ripened pistil, inclosing
the seeds. Familiar examples are
the grape currant and cranberry, as
well as the orange, pumpkin and
gourd. The peach, plum, etc., are
known as drupes, or stone fruits, in
which the inner part of the pericarp
>r riponod pistil is hard and bonelike,
inclosing the seed, while out*
ode of this is the fleshy, edible lay*
jr.
The raspberry and blackberry are
not true berries, but are composed of
i number of little drupes or drupjlets,
placed together on an elongat- ;
3<1 receptacle. In the raspberry, the
Irupelets, are readily detached from
the receptacle, hut in the blackberry
the whole coheres strongly together,
md the receptacle is eaten with the
rest of the fruit. A nut is a stone
fruit, or drupe, in which the fleshy
part is absent. The true seed is indosed
within the shell, forming the
.alible part. There are other plants
in which the ripened pistil opens at
maturity, freeing the seeds within.
The pea and bean are familiar examples.
The undeveloped seeds of the
former delight our appetite as green
peas, while the unripened pistil and
weds of the boun are boiled together,
md appear as string beans.
The modification of roots also furnish
many valuable vegetables.
Most of these, however, are not true
roots, but subterranean stems, as is
ihown by the presence of buds, or
icars where buds have previously
formed and dropped off. The sosailed
roots of ginger and sweet flag
ire merely thickened portions of a
nibterranean stem, called the rhino
wtr Word, )>;/// TVork (turf >V
, TIIU IIS DAT,
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mil, or root stock. Tubers, like the
potato ami Jerusalem artichoke
(which, bv the way, is not an artichoke,
and did not originate in .leriiHalcin)
are the enlarged bnds of
these subterranean branches, in which
a large proportion of starth has been (
depositeil. Kxamples of a similar |
tendency to form tubers have been
observed in the stems of the potato (
plant above tlio ground. A bulb, (
like the onion, is formed by the en ^
lnrgement of the leaves of an under- ,
ground stein, as shown by the scales ^
or layers of w hich it is composed. (
Solid bulbs, or conns, are not true
bulbs, but all enlarged underground (
stein. ,
In the turnip, beet and radish the;
upper part of the root itself shares
in the enlargement, so that these
vegetables are of a compound nature.
The object of these underground enlargements
is evidently to lay up a
store of nourishment for the plant
during the succeeding season. The
cauliflower furnishes an example of
the use of the undeveloped flowers
of a plant as an article of food, and ,
in the true artichoke the thick,
fleshy plant scales are utilized in the
same manner. We have thus seen
that there is hardly any portion of a
plant w hich mav not lie so modified
as to become food for man. We have J
thus seen that the strawberry, raspberry
and blackberry are not really
berries, but that the squash and (
I.:. i -1 ii ..
]>u 111 |>mii are, wnne me potato, union
ami llag-root arc not true roots*
These are only a few of tin; wonder- ,
fully interesting lessons taught by '(
the science of botany.-? /'o/mfor
A't'ienci' A res. I (
l'er|>etuat i u^ (Jerry iiiaiidcrs. I
Washington, April 21b?For |
the third time in ten days the Rc i
publican Representatives were in -
caucus to-night t<> consider the ar- <
rangenient of the order of business i
before the House. The principle M
subject of discussion was the Me- 1
Comas bill to regulate in part the I
time and manner of holding elections
for Representative commonly known
as the anti gerrymandering bill. i
Mr. McCoinas opened the proceedings
by explaining the provisions of '
his bill and making a constitutional
argument to justify the proposed ac- |
tion by (Congress, finding warrant t
for it under the clause conferring i
upon Congress the power to prescribe 1
the time, place and manner of hold- I l
ing elections for Representatives, lie i
referred to the action of the Mary- <
land and Ohio Legislature as indica- ;
tive of the need for immediate aei
tion upon the subject.
Representative Lodge, of Massachusetts,
endorsed all that Mr. Mo- i
Comas had said, and seconded warmly
his arguments in favor of the bill.
Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, i
opposed the bill. Mr. Frank, of I i
Missouri, opposed the bill, because, <
in his opinion, it was the exercise I
of the constitutional power for the
first time for party purposes, ami s
could not be justified. It was retro- <
active, and would be invidious and
unpopular. It transferred to the i
National Congress an odious species
of gerrymandering, which now and
then the States resorted to, without 1
effecting any purpose. In Missouri, <
which was rapidly growing to be a 1
Republican State, it would tie the i
hands of the Republican party for <
ten years and permit Congressional i
rule to remain with the Democrats
.
for that length of time.
I he debate ran along for fully two;
hour*. Several members, like Frank,
feared that the hill would, if panged,
prove to he a two-odgod sword, and (
might cut an heavily into Republican
strongholds as into Democratic ,
cainpn. <
Although it was apparent, without
taking a test vote, that the hill '
had great strength in caucus, it was 1
finally |>ostpolled in order to atTord ,
opportunity to discuss the subject of j
a service pension hill. <
This came up on a proposition by ,
A f I ? ? ? " ? 1 ' ^
.ncssrs. nooimiiihii, Cheat ham and ^
others to amend the Morrill service!,
pension an panned u|>on hy the last {
causurt so as to reduce the age linii- 1 I
tat ion from 02 to 56 years. There i
was a long discussion over this <
amendment, and it was midnight j 1
when the caucus adjourned, having i
compromised upon an amendment t
which will reduce the ag<* limitation , 1
to 00 years. j <
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MAY 8, 1S<)<).
I'll 13 HHHIKMT SVMHCATI-; ()
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\ CoriMH'atiou I'oi-iiumI to l.i^lit
Two I loin isplicros. t
I*iiIl.adki.I'Hi a, April %<?. I'iium- 11
dors in this city and in New York (|
iave succeeded during the past week
n placing stuck for the biggest syn- c
licatc ever formed oil the face of the '
St
jlohe. The syndicate cuihruccs in
he plans of its prodigious enterprise i
10 less a feat than the lighting of
wo hemispheres, and the requisite
'a.sli is now in hand ~
The incorporators of this great
loncern expect to meet dining the '
oming week ami perfect an organi- (
lation under the title of the Anglo- i
\nierican (las Lighting Company, a
\rrangeineiits have already been ^
Olllpleted to list $o0,?00,00tt nf '
dock on .lune I on the IMiiladel- (
>liia and New York exchanges. The |
lersonnel of the Philadelphia con- |
ingent of the syndicate Iras a doeid- ''
d "traction" aspect, all the leading
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capitalists of that network of street (
ail ways tiguring prominent 1 v in th?? ('|
gigantic amalgamation. They arc I
reinforced by the leading spirits of ''
he old (ins Trust, and by no less 1
important individual capitalists. W.
W. (iibbs, I'resident of the I nited \
tias Improvement Company of this \
uity, is the leading spirit of the new |
nerprise. I lis subscriptions uggre- |
gate nearly $5,000,000. lie has been j
it work on the scheme, which origi- ;i
nated in his brain, for nearly eight \
years, and such has been his success ,
that he is alnady alluded to as the ?
lay (lonld of I'liihidelphia. Might ,
years ago Mr. (iibbs was unknown i
to local fame. Then he occupied a |
miall oil ice in New York city as the |
president of a company similar in |
diaracter to the vast enterprise now |,
mccessfully launched, but on a dosidedly
miniature scale. Mr. (Jibbs j
removed to this city, and his evtab- f
<ir ii<> ??.*?? i i
dmiiit iii \r i iii* i i ' M> I Illll'U M
(las Improvement Company was attended
w ith phenomenal sueeess.
A number of loading citizens .
wore among the ineorpnlors, including
William (1. Warden, (leorgo
I'hiller, Thos. Dolun, Henry ('. (libion,
Williams S. HI kins, Ik A. I?. ^
Widener, .lohn Wanamakor, Henry '
II. Heu.slon and ('. A. (Jrisconi.
I hiring its existence of nearly a dee- '
ido the tinted (las Improvement s
Company has scoured ownership of
the gas-lighting franchises of more
than forty cities, the most important
i>f which are Kansas ('ity, Omaha, 1
Dos Moines, Allontown, .Jersy City,
I'aterson, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia,
Waterbury and Lew istown.
When Knglish capitalists, following
their lucrative experience with
American breweries, began casting
wistful eyes upon general American
industries and examining their earn- ,
ing capacities, their attention was ^
ini'-kly at t raeted by t lie alert and en- ,
Lerprising (libbs to the I'nitedCus |
Improvement Company. Knglish
igents who are now in New A'ork ^
[jity v.cre sent out to negotiate with (
the Philadelphia and New York
shareholders of the plant. They
represented Sir Julian (ioldsrind, a
London hanker, and the Imperial
Continental (ius Company of London.
Mr. (iibbs spent Friday and
to day in close conference with them
in New York, and returned to this
L'ity this afternoon with all the formal
negotiations closed and sealed.
Southern ICditorH in Council. (
CilART.KSTON, S. ('., April 30.? 1
At the meeting of the Southern |
Press Association, the following res- .
Motions was introduced by lion.
Patrick Walsh of the Augusta
f'/ironic/*-, and unanimously adopt3d:
?
Whereas, a measure is pending in '
Congress making the government a
party to the general telegraphic
scheme; and whereas this is a dangerous
depart ore from t he princi- ^
pies of democratic-republican go\
3rnment, as defined by Jefferson,
which are best calculated to protect
life and property, secure the libertics
of the people ami promote the
welfare <>f citizen#; and whereas a i
tendency to centralization in the ad- j
ministration of the government and t
increase of office-holders ought to bo j
shocked; and whereas to make the /
handling of the telegraphic business
of the newspapers of the I ni-'
ted State# dependent 011 the good- <
will of employees, subject to party >
ontrol, would be an infringement I
Wl
f (ho liberty of (lie pros* and sub
ersive of (lie best interest of tin
tenplc; t heroforo. be i I.
Itesolvon. That we, member* of
lie Southern I 'res* Association, our
est I v ret p uvs t our IJopresonlativo*
ml Senator* in ('nntMvxs n> < <"
~rs' - ' "
heir best endeavors Insecure the
efeat of this ini<|uituus measure.
Resolved, That this action be
ommnnicuted to the Senators ami
tepreseiitati\os by the president ami
L'cretarv. s
S. I >. I'ool of the New Orleans
' iiiir.s I>< int roduced I lie folnving
Resolution relative to the
ovcrniuent improvements of the
lississlppi River, which was adopt
il after some discussion:
Unsolved, That it is the sense of
he members of the Southern I're.vs
association that the maintenance of
n etticieut system of levees on the
1 i > > i - - i p p i b'iver is a matter of naionul
concern, and that the govern
iient should take all necessary t? ps
o build and sustain such a system.
Oxperience has shown that the penile
living along the banks of the
iver are unable to bear the burden
f taxation necessary to support such
, system, and it is not right that
hey should be required to do so.
The Mississippi is essentially a naioaal
river and its llnoris should bo
est ruined 1 > \ the national governncnt.
Dr. Oliver \\. Holmes is Hie West
inter of society \er-e ami ilinner
ei'HO that our count rv lias ever lia<l.
le is a delightful old man of more
lian eighty, and with a singular recti!
inn of his tfifls both in prose
aid verse. lie writes with a eliurin
hat is very pleasing* and lie i- one
if the aired who do not' seem to irro\\
?hl. I lis heart is fresh, and lie writes
f heinir old with a vienr and <rrace
hat are womlroiislv attractive. W e
ike this genial, jrifted New Kmramler,
wlm is not known to nurture
lis enmities against the South to
nop them very warm. In his poem
milled "Alter the Curfew," a most
deasant performance, lie savs playally
and yet how touchiiigly:
Plie play I* over. While the light
Vet lingers in the darkening hull,
come to >sy a last good n'ght
lie fore t he I i 11:11 exeuti' all.
i\'e gathered once, a joyous tlirouir:
Tin* jovial toasts wont gayly round;
Vitli jest and laugh, and shunt and song.
Wo ni.'idi' tin* llowers and wall- resound.
V(' coiho with fooblc Steps and slow,
A little hand of four or live,
.eft from tin* wrecks of I out? ago,
Still |>l as d to find ourselves alive.
Uive! Mow living, too, are the\
Whose memories it is ours t > ?duir !
ipread the loin; table's full array;
There sits a ghost in every chair!
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?o ends "the hoys," a lifelong play:
We, too, must hear the prompter'* call
i'o fairer scenes ami brighter day;
Farewell! I let the curtain fall!
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The Sub-Treasury I'lan.
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Charleston World.
Kditor of Tit k Woiti.n: There is
me tiling thai some of ear people
vnnt, which is, I am afraid, ver\ (liferent
front what I hey think it, i-;
hat is the "ttub-Treasttrv Plan."
1'ho l.ill will not bo passed, and fhe\
lad I id I tii* thank llu-ir stars that it
an't I)*- A great many see the bait,
mt tho hook just under the bait
hey do not nee, or else they would
lot try to out their own throats. If
he government could do all that
he "plan" calls for, why are we tax
also heavily? Surely the govern
neiit would not need the money thus
aken from us by heavy taxes; surely
ve need all we can get. The governuent
can help us by being satisfied
vitli lower taxes, and on the other
land, if Mie government debt isfoureen
hundred million dollars, how
onId we, spare so much money to
mild ware houses and Wd money
>esides at a lower interest than it
mys now on its own debt?
A. L. Kwiiank.
If you feel uiiHblu to do your work,
aid have that tired feeling, take l)r.
[. II. McLean's ^arsuparilhi; it will
lut'ko vim bright, active and vigor*
mis. For si;!o l?v I )r. 10. Norton.
Too many women who Mipport
heir hiishauds.
Too iiianx liars.
Too many bores.
Too many tiresome plays.
Too many -no, there are not too
nanv babies, ami while there are
dentv of babies and plenty of love,
here will always be plenty of haplinens
in this world.- AV/e )'<>! /
S'////.
The molt popular liniment, is the
?bl reliable, I )r. .1. II. M< Lean's
/oleanie Oil Linnuent. Lor sale by
)r. K. Norton.
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no. xttiii.
I'll i: SAN Tin: |{OAI>.
Canvassing ISoi'koloy Comity ?
Last Not in* I hsikmI.
Mr. .f. 11. Morrison of McClellanvilie,
one of the Berkeley county
committeemen in the mutter of the
const met ion of the Mount Pleasant,
Sun tee uml Little Uiver road, urrived
in the city yesterday, and had a
conference with Mr. Killian, the
agent of the company. lioth of
these gentlemen, it is stated, will
shortly make a tour through that
portion of Berkeley in which the .
new road is to he located, for the
purpo-e of obtaining the grants of
laud promished in aid of I lie enterprise.
The following notice
was issued hy the corporation a few
days since:
''The Mount Pleasant, Santee and
Little Uiver railroad is projected to
run from the t'itv of ( harieslou
through the counties of Berkeley,
Ueorgetown and Horry, in South
Carolina and ( olumhtts, Hrunswiek,
in North (.'aroliuu, to Wilmington,
New Ilano\cr county, with the view
ol a probable e\tension to liichmomi,
Suffolk, or Norfolk, \'a.
"The county is now being exuininod
for the purpose of developing
I lie most practicable route to build
the railroad upon between ( hurlcston,
S. and Wilmington,
ami also to ascertain what donations
ami land can he scoured to the nii'road
company, provided the railroad
is built.
M >11 account of the Undeveloped
condition of the counties through
whicl) the railroad is projected, there
is not at present suflicierft busim s.s
to maintain a railroad and warrant a
return of interest for the money required
to construct the railroad; hut
if the citizens of (leorgctown county
will donate to the railroad company
as much of their land us they may
afford, the railroad company will, by
the natural increase in the valuation
of the lands donated, caused by the
const ruction of the railroad, consider
such increase in valuation of lands
an indirect return of interest for the
money expended in building the
railroad.
"I'ersons donating lands will not
he asked to surrender their donations
until the railroad is graded or built
or in operation from and to such
points us may be mutually agreed
upon.
"I'urties donating lands must understand
that when they make the
railroad company joint* owners with
themselves in the lands of the county,
it will be to the mutual advantage
of both parties to develop the
country as fast as possible.
"The construction of the railroad
will tiring additional population and
new enterprises. The lumber intereats
will be revived, fanning lands
will be in demand, mo< hanics, worknieii
and business men generally will
be seeking locations and places of
busiiu \SS. 9 I'lie operating of t he railmail
will cause new towns to be
built, will give quick and easy cominunicatinn
with distant points, and
put new life into the country between
Charleston and Wilmington;
it will increase the valuation of
lands dtm per cent,, and reduce individual
taxation railroads being assessed
at a valuation of $<5,000 per
mile.
The following statement of distances
will show the advantage to he
gained by the .Mount IMeasant, Santee
and Little ! vi vor rail road: Front
Charleston 10 Georgetown, 50.1
miles; Georgetown to Wilmington,
N. (., K)0 miles; W ilmington, to
Norfolk, g 1 o mil Norfolk, to Wilmington,
I >el., miles; Wilming
ton, IK'!., to New York, 11 <5.0 miles
?from ( Imrleston to New York,
701) miles; making n difference in
distance in favor of the proposed
road between Charleston and Now
York of 1)1 miles less that that of
anv present route." ? (] htih'.rton
World.
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Many people habitually ondwro a '
feeling of lassitude, because they
think they have to. If they would
take l)r. .1. II. M<d .can's Sarsapari lla
this feeling of weariness would give
place to vigor and vitality. Cor sale
by Cr. K. Norton.
How are things going?" asked a
West sider of an ohl friend w hom
lie had not met for sumo time.
"Tough," w as the reply.
"How so?"
"Got. arrested by mistake Iti.d had
to prove I was an honest man."
"That's had."
"Mad? I should say so. I never
had such a hard joh in mv life.?
( '// fro(/o Tri/mnr.
The higher and more consecrated
the individual life, the clearer will
probably bo its recognition of its dependence
upon and guidance bv tbo
Clod who is acknowledged in all its
wavs. .('ttt/iftt r/iimf I*ri'shytri'i(tn.