The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, May 25, 1899, Image 1
EPEOPLE'S JOURNAL
PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
6 1 R'O D AM T I l -l
A FIEND Op TH SOUT11.
An -EIloquent Address at the cOn.
fdterate 'Rounlon by a Gallant
Federal Soldler.
One of the interesting features of
the Charleston reunion was a well.
timed address from Col. Henry L,
Turner, of Chicago, on the lait night
of the assemblage of veterans in tha
hvditorium, when the closing exercises
took place. Maj. Theodore G. Barker
introduced the speaker and among
other things said he would present a
oldier who had been always at the
front, and yet never wounded. " I
vt to introduce," he said, "our com
e in bi66. A man who was brave
gh and grand enough to fire
tea over the sleeping dead of the
federacy, against the protest of his
le. I present as my friend, as the
d of the Southern people, of
and fraternity, Col. Henry 31.
,of Chicago."
Turner came forward and was
cheered. After bowing his ac.
edgments, he said :
ends of the United Confederate
rais Association of Charleston
thle South : Do you remember
. fair daughter of France, Joan of
ro, the daintiest, sweetest maiden
artyr of all history? ArAd do you
member how, with unfaltering faith,
e communed with and drew inspira
on from the mysterious voices which
o to her out of the great unknown?
m no maiden martyr as you see,
' me also have come voices, im
Live voices, mysterious voices,
I .know not where. And it is
ugh obedience to their admoni
a that all my acquaintance and as
o tion with the South has come.
Years ago, i hen youth was just
sweeping into manhood, a voice came
to mb out of the everywhere, saying:
"Come, follow me," and it led me
dovi int' the smoke and roar of battle,
into that hell of civil war, in which I
came to realize what Southern fire
and valor meant-in which I came to
know, from investigation at the muzzle
end of your rifles, how great, how fear
lees, how heroic my brothers of the
South could be. Following that voice,
I saw for the first time this banner of
the Btar's and Bars. Yesterday I was
impressed beyond measure at the lin
ing up of your old battle 1lags in this
magnificent Auditorium. But yester
day a effect was colorless compared
with that of years ago, when they came
sweeping out of thickets, flashing over
breastworks, blazing over battlefields.
To you they were an inspiration. To
us they signaled that there was rush
ing down to meet us one of the knight
liest, most gallant foca that ever trod a
flaming field.
And once again there came into my
lonely life, out of, Cupid's glittering
realm of flowers and fancy, a voice
whioh would not be denied, saying :
"Come, fellow me.". And it led me
into that'sunny land, where Southern
womanhood holds sway. And the voice
said to me:: " " It is not welt that man
shoull live alone ; saunter thou about ;
perchance-som one of these rare crea
tures will hav6 pity on thee." And
then I came to know that the Southern
gentlewoman Is, of all women, woman
ly, gracious merry hearted, pure,
serene, undaunted, glorious in her pow
er of self-sacrjilce.and noble in her devo
tion. One 'not too good for human
nature's ,daily cdibradeahip, yet deli
cate, refined and gentle, but with a bit
of deviltry to give her spice and bril
liancy, with aspirations towards the
heights of life and yet with unfilled
longings towards profanity as she sweet
ly " darns" our. sqcks in different lan
guages ; helpfdl in times of trouble,
cool in danger .and with nerve to fol
low where'we lead,
O'er crested billow
Or o'er five-barred gate.
Cultured% 'revered, a tirinity almost
divine, friend, wife'and inother, three
in one, a perfect igontlewom an. And
thus it came about that following the
voice my wooing prospered, and at,
length
We rode into fairyland, Paula and I,
My Southern-bred.Paula-fair Paula
andI, ..
and, being iJN,..it. was thus I came to
know how fascinating Southern rule
con be. And oe more I listened, and
out of the misty distance came a voice,
this time in alien .language, sounding
the old-time summons, " Come, follow
me." It was the voice of bleeding
Cuba-a cry for help, for rescue. Apd
with my great regiment I nmar'ched-teo
.the calling of theo voice, but this time,
thank God, th'e -sonis of the South,
heirs to all yout ie11k'y' dash and go,
marched in cadoncod step beside us.
And so, foilowvAng the voice, we found
that in the Dance of'War it is infinite
ly pleasanter to swing the South as
partners " and 'sashay down the mid
dle side by bide," than it to have her
prancing " forward all " against us.
And yet again, but a few days since,
there came to peIn my home by the
waters of the lue Lake Michigan=
cames to me out, of jhe spring-laden iair
-the sweetest yeoice .of all-the voice
of S8athern fitendship, bearing theo
samr old message : ." Cone, follow
me." And followiog it I haye come
across the blue grass meadows of Ken
tucky, over the ship of' 'lennessoo ; on
pant fields where Qgiton still is king ;
on past scenes 'ulere thg seedg' of
battle have bl ostoined' into inmortal
ity. I have huxdied. down fr~m the
blue of the lakes Wthe blue of the sea
and for this one purpose only--that I
might come into 'full .Possession of rfn.
new inheritance; that I might begin
to enjoy my share' Of all ho glories ol
Confederate valoN',jrny. share 'of' th
thrilling memoriop . of- Connfederatec
campaigns ; that I L migh t, with
world's approval, write-into my list 0o
heroes the names of all the great Con
federate chieftains--the Lees, th(
Hills, the Johnstons, Stonewall Jack
son, and all the shining roll ; that
might give a soldIerly salute to youi
grand old general, Wade Hampton
that I might fill my heart to the ful
of Southern sunshine, hospitality an.
brothei'hood. I have come bringin.'
' with me for yours acceptance the titi
'iteeds to an equal share with us of what
eter of grandeur, grace and glory rest,
on the. INortheln slope of our great ba:
tiefiel s. .I brIng the " glad hand " c
Northqin brotherhood. Ah, friendi
iqe have forgotten all the anger an
uun1aluness 01 years ago, but we shal
never forget that now we have feli
shoulder and elbow touch each witl
the other. We shall not forget thal
we have been out under the Stars and
Stripes together; that we have bivou
acked and marched and suffered and
fought together.
Oh, friends, as I have looked upor
your gathering here and noted how
universal is the silver thread in hair
and beard ; how the Confederate grey
has stolen into face and mustache, I
am reminded that in one respect at least
age has an advantage over youth. It
Is in this that our memories are fuller,
richer, longer. To every old cam
paigner life is full of reminiscences.
n his idle hours some touch of sea or
landscape; some color of the sunset:
some fleeting odor ; some ringing
bugle call : some solitary rifle shot,
will bring back with overuowering force
scenes of camp and field long since
passed away. And I am thinking,
could we turn an X-ray on the hearts
of these old Veterans, what revelations
we should make ; what startling con
trasts weeshould find. For, while there
may be to# upon the brow and frost
upon the lip
"There Is no snow upon the heart.
'Tis summer always there."
Lying stored away in each old sol
dier's inner sanctuary of life we should
find pictures full of fire and action :
pictures of the venturesome skirmish
line with its creeping, stealthy, scat
tered line of fire and smoke; pictures
of wild assaults, of desperate defences:
of lonely picket posts, of slashing vie
tories and stueborn defeats. I have no
doubt that I shoald find hidden away
in every heart before me sacred me
mories of the flag you loved-colors
that went down before the iron hand
of Jestiny, and that I should also find
some one sweet woman's face, which
has grown only more tender and beau
tiful with the lapse of years. And
should I really find all these things
shrined away in your inmost souls, I
should have only thoughts of sympathy
and approbation, and perhaps some
thing of envy with it all. For a cause
gained must run the gauntlet of hard
experience, and is apt to lose some
thing of its glamour through the
artiety of realization. A cause lost is
a cause untried by the last measure of
daily .conta:t and, like the mirage,
only gains beauty with growing dis
tances. Victory lives in the garish
sunlight of actuality. Defeat hovers
in the twilight of the beautiful "might
have been.' Success must ever go
marching on, through blunderings and
darkness, to its final goal, failure rests
under the drooping cypress in the
shade of tender regret and dreams, ra
diant dreams, of tne fallen favorite.
But, friends, 1 come to you to-day
glad beyond measure at the final frui
tion of a generation's hope and eflfort
for national Rounion. I rejoice inex
pressibly over our re-established Amer
icanism. I do not know how it may
be with you, but I have no patience
with the remnants of a paleozoic age
in the North who rail at our new and
solidified nationalism.
I am glad, I say, over this reconcilia
tion and reunion. In many ways we
are the necessary supplement and
counterpart each of the other. Our
Northern wheat needs Southern cot
ton. Our prairies need your piney
woods. Our wedding bells would ring
forsaken chimes without your orange
blossoms. Our over strenuous life and
the dolce far niente of your ideal ex
istence each draws nearer to the ideal
by infusion with each other. The
angular ruggedness of the Puritan
gains grace without weakening, and
the imaginative chivalry of the Cava
lier gains practicality without loss of
manly courtesy from mental inter
course. The loosening tendency of
Northern cosmo p olitanism recioves a
wholesome check from contact with
your purer Anglo-Saxon Americanism.
And our over development of indlvi
dlual independence and liberty, which
believes not only that all are born free
and equal, but that each is born better
than his neighbor, born to leadership,
to kingship-must look for its correc
tive to the Southern lingering of the
old Feudal days--to Southern respect
and reverence for constituted au
thority.
In Dumas's " Three Guardsmen"' you
remember how, when some bear-tiess
rullian spat in the face of King Charles
the First, on his way to the scaffold,
the giant Porthos with his ponderous
fist killed the scoundrel with a blow,
andl how the fior-y D'Artagnan, his
soul overflowing with sor-row and
anger, cried out, " Respect for fallen
majesty." In the flood of irreligion,
Socialism, Anarchism and a thousand
other Isms, which have eopt upon us
in the North we have been tempted,
knowing her steadfastness, to call
upon the South to come up and help:
us. But I have faith to believe that all
will yet come to see how great, how
real, how wor-thy of all respect and re
verence is the delegated majesty of a
mighty people.
In his monument address in Chicago
your grand old soldier, Gen. Hampton,
"A King once said of a prince struck
down,
Taller lie seems in death.
TIhe Baying is true to-dlay as then,
For 'tis after death we measure men.'
Only a half truth, General l The
world has measured your dead and
named them heroes-but it has aisa
measured your living men- -those whc(
out of defeat and sorrow-out of wrecki
and~ ruin, have butilded a now South
stronger, greater, fairer, more end ur
ing than ever. TIho world has moca
sured these living men and named then:
.great.
. Felends, brothers, I have spoken t<
you a' herald's message of friendship
I have tried to make your memnorioe
and your rejolcings my own. I xet
that Seuth as well as North ago I
creeoping on all the race of high-soulot
men who fought that 01(1 conict to it
close.
It is the irony of fate that we mnus
believe our little calendars when the
s~ay we are growing 01ld rather tha
our own hearts and spirits, which tel
us we are as young as in those radilar
3 day a when we so gaily marched awa3
- Dath will he calling soon, boys ; bu
what eare we? We have m'et an
- assed hiim many a time in tangle anS
f n thiek et, and said, '' Good day "t
him; e'vemet him on .the fiery fi
I n ofdorht ohm knh
I calls he'll find us ready. Like your
I great leader, Jackson, we shall but
" pass over the river and rest under
the shade of the trees." Every burden,
e every trial, every disappointment will
fall from us
" And the cares that In fest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arab,
And as silently steal away."
Col. Turner's remarks were very
effective and forcible, and he was fro
quently applauded.
USE OF THE TELEPHONK.
Enormous Growth of the Business inl
America in Recent Years.
In spite of disappointments and dis
satisfaction, America is the foremost
country in the world in the art of tele
phony, and In many particulars it has
so far surlassed European countries
that no comparison is possible. This
Is especially true of the long-distance
service, which atfords connections be
tween thirty-eight exchange compan
ies having 410,000 subscribers, and in
cludes in its equipment more than
10,000 miles of pole lines, carrying
nearly 125,000 miles of wire and con
necting 285 oflices. It Is possible for
persons 2,000 miles apart to hold con
versation over . the lines o! this com
pany with as much clearness and dis
tinctness as if they were separated by
only 100 yards. In Europe the longest
telephone connection thus far attempt
ed Is only 650 miles. The long-distance
system in this country has been de
veloped at an expenditure of $15,000,
000 for line construction, equipment,
franchises, and supplies. It Is the
main artery in the Bell structure, and
is expected to prove the most impor
tant feature of the system in the im
pending struggle of the Bell interests
to maintain their supremacy in the
large cities of the country.
Last year the exchanges operated
under the Bell patents em ployed 1,124,
846 Instruments, an increase of 205,725
over the previous year, and ia gain of
992,154 telephones sinze the present
rganization was affected in 10. In
that year the American Bell TL.Cphone
Company began business with 132 692
instruments connected by 214, 116 miles
of wire it the several exchanges then
established.
The most interesting statistics upon
the telephone industry are those which
mark its gradual development since
1854, when a systematie coilection of
data pertaining to the subject was be
gun. The company had 1,.422 eircuits
and 123,025 stations established in 1-.4
and the business was divided among
906 exchanges, the entire force em
ployed numbering 4,762 men, wome.n
and children. Today the payroll con
tains 19,66s names : there are 465,1bt
stations connected by 772,9S9 miles of
wire and 1.126 exchanges and 1,00S
branch offices included in the system.
These figures convey some idea of the
enormous growth of the business in
the last fifteen years, but they fail en
tirely to show the importance of this
method of communication in the daily
commercial and social life of the na
tion. A better illustration is afforded
by the fact that last year 1,231,000,000
were made through exchanges in this
uuutry, Uo. 3,523,700 daily conversa
tions as estimated from the actual
count In many of the cities of the coun
try. The use of the toll-line system,
connect'ng city exchanges with subur
ban points has also greatly increased,
thr number of connections thus made
during the last year being 30,600,000.
This is entirely independent of the
long distance service, and furnishes
another proof of the growing import
ance of this method of communication
as a social factor. The number of
subscribers furnished last year was
increased by nearly 81,000, which is
certainly a remarkable showing when
it Is remembered that the 13ell ex
changes lost many thousands of patrons
through competition.
]t must be remembered, too, that
the independent telephone movement
which has beeni growing rapidly since
the expiration of the fundamental
13ie1 patents six years ago, has assumed
important proportions and that it~s
promoters and supporters have estab
lishod in the neighborhood of 3i,000
exchanges throughout the country.
Naturally many of these are in small
places where the 13ell company's rates
had proved an insurmountable barrier,
but others are in towns where ex
changes have been in operation. T1he
low rates of the anti-lijll companies
have greatly stimulated the business
and place~d the service within the
reach of many w ho could not, alford the
Boll prices. In spite of the reduction
In prices the character of the service
has been improved, as competition has
made it necessary for the Boll comn
pany to use inventions andl improve
monte that otherwise would have been
buried. This was the policy of the
Bell management during the period
when It onjoyedl a monopoly, but this
course hadl to be abandoned as soon
as the iigdependent movement got
fairly undter way.-Now York Sun.
-J oseph Blowman, who recently di1ed
in Jessamine County, Kentucky, at, thc
rip~e old age of eighty-four ycra-, wai
the fighter of four dlesperatoe c ols, lir
each of which he succeeded ir kiilling
his antagonist. In 1848, whilo living
in Mississippi, ho quarreled with ii
man named Snolling, andl by agreomont
they were tied together, armode~ wit~h
bowle knives andi put, into a (lark room
Although frightfully cut himself 3ow.
man came ouit victor. Ills next duel
was in 18541, when he had a dlsputt
with a Spaniard named 1)omingo
Ar'mod with knives, they made foi
oach other, and Blowman soveriid thct
-Spaniard's head from hIs hody.
When the war broke out, llowmar
enlisted on the Confederate side. A ftet
the war he fought, a(duol with a cousin
named Williams. The combat wmn
with istols at t~an pacos, and Hlowmam
wounded hiis antagonbit so badly thal
the died. Blow man a last, encounter wai
~only a few ye'ars ago, when in a han
to hand conlict with "J Oe " M iller, wh<
iwas hnoWix as the '' ilad Man fron
I taci no," lhe camne ou t vicetorious, kill
-i ng M iller withiout receiving as mu iel
as a scratch.
d -Th'le populIatio n of J erusalemi hi.
o been raidlly i ncreasi ng of lato, and I
d now about 1i5,000X ; of theme 2.8,000) arn
WORLD'S TAILEST SOLDIISR.
A GALLANT EX-CONI'DEI)MIATIC.
LIetA . Fickling, of (o'ua101Ia Is rhe
Tallest Man of rho Wor-Id's (reat
Armies.
[he Colunibin State.
The Confodorato army possessod thlo
tallest soldior of which any authontie
record can ho found. 'Ihat soldior was
a nativo of Columbia and is still a
resident, and it may ho saId just here
that thoso who woro the comtradeo of
Lieut. Eldred S. Lickling will toll any
one that no truor, braver or cooler sol
dier ever drew a sword. blout. ''lck
Iing's courage has boon wstod on many
occasions and his comnrades' talOs of
his doeds aro familiar to many. Co
lumbians remember, too, the occasion
not so many years ago when ho, then
chief of polico, quelled a riot practi
cally single-handed on Market square
with the assistance of It baseball bat
he picked up in front of a store. This
man now qieltly sorves his city in the
capacity of a patrolman, having sonio
years ago left the railroad businoso
in which he was engaged for a long
period.
11e is a son of the lato emlnent law
yer, P. W. Lickling. lie wont to the
front with a lieutenant's commission
and saw his first service with the
South Carolina artillory in Charleston
harbor.
The voteran soldior stands 6 feet '1
inehes in height, and when lie ap
peared at the reunion in Charloston,
having igone from the desire to visit
the scene of the glorious past and
shake the hands of comrades, ho at
tracted universal attention.
it happened that the New York
Herald the Sunday before the reunion
had published in its magazino supple
ment a carefully prepared article, at
tractively illustrated, on the subjet
of the tallest Soldiers in the armies of
theL; world, and giving all the facts
and figures obtained after careful re
search.
The tal.est soldier that could be ae
counted for nither in the past or at the
present time lacks one inch of coming
up to the ex-Confederate lieutenant's
height.
Probably the tallest oilicer in service
to-day, the Herald says, is the English
guardsman Capt. Oswald Ames., of the
Second Life Guarus. who headed the
Qdeen'-i jubilee processesion, and who
nieasures 6 feet 3 inches. It was at
the personal request of the Prince of
Wales that Capt. Ames rode alone, the
first in all that brilliant gathering. A
giant Muscovite is the Grand Dake
Dmitri Konstantinovitch. cousin of the
czar, and colonel commanding the regi
ment of Grenadiers of the Imperial
Guard. The grand Muke is 6 feet 7
inches, which is so immensely tall that
no hotel bed has been found long
enough to accommodate him comfort
ably. 11e is ob.liged to Laa e one built
in sections, which travels witn him.
and is put up by a special mechanie,
told otT for the purpose. ur der the su
cerintendence of the royal valet. An
other gigantic European officer is Col.
Von l'hiskow of the Pirst regiment of
'russian Guards. He is over 6 feet 6
inches, and he headed the delegation
of ofticers, all of them over 6 feet, lent
by Emperor William to the funeral of
the late President l-'aure. Von 'his
kow is the tallest oflicer in Germany
and his regiment, stationed at Pots
damn, is the same, that wRas the play
thing of that old soldier l'rederiek.
Capt. James M. P-'orsy th and Surgeon
J. E. Gardner are the tallest ollicers in
the United Stiates n1avy, and both of
themu closely approach the six foot live
Inch mark. Capt. I''orsyth comes of a
tall family. 1is father was 6 feet 5
inches, one of his brother six feet
seven inches, another six feet live
inches, and his own son, who Is 31
years old ard a nion-conumissionou of
ieor In the P'ennsylvania Boy's brI
gade, is six foet six inches.
Another tIno spoeimon of an army
oillicer is Col. H-lin, l''lrst cavalry, who
is commnandarnt of cadeots at West l 'oint,
and who Is sIx feet two and a half
Inches.
Col. "'Dan" Appleton, of the Seventh
New York regiment, needs nio muon
tlon beyond the fact that lie belongs to
a family of tall mon. 'Thle colonel Is
six foot two inches, and his father, the
late Col. .John A. Appleton, was the
same height.
Another tall oflicer is Gon. Lawton,
his height being 6 feet 4i irnches.
ieichard Wand Groen Welling is do
cidoedly a long name, but It fIts the tall
gentleman who carrios It,, for lie Is 6
feet, 3 and a half Inches without lis
boots.
The United States volunteers have
also some1 tall and distinguished ofil
cors. John Jacob Astor, who was
among tho earliest to answer the pres
ident's Iirst apipeali for men and mnoney
is over I foot, and a half inches.
'Tho I tough I siders, celobratedl In
rmany other ways, had also a ver-y tall
man among thomt, in the person of
WillIam 'Taylor- do ZychIi nsk I, w no Is
a trIfle over 6 feot, 3 1iches.
Spenikinig of tall soldIers In general,
the w riter in '.The Ilorald says :' I t
would bo hard to nanme a -oun rtry or an
ago in w h Ich those lino ig htinrg moen
have not been hymnred andI soughIt
after. We rearl of them In the 1liootric
wars, andl we can not, hel P admlI ring
those among them who1 are descrI b)od
as outtorinig thteir fellows hy thre head
and shoulde rs. A tall man II ector
must, have been r othrrwi sr hiow couldn
lie have handled hIs spear, wIch1 was
50 "' poridorus, bIg arnd tourgh ' In
the army of lianniblal, thre astute Car
thaginlan, were rrarny nmonr of trnIs
dlare-doevil, picturesqure type, jurst as
thre wore at anothber tImc in the rmmy
of 13rlan I loru andI In the biattal lorn oif
free bootors that mrado Nurrope theIr
hunting grourrnd durring a great part oif
the Middle Ages.
"lDynamito and rapid-lIre giuns wore
unknown then, and hrenco, to a mniri
unusually strong andI tall thre lIfe of a
sold icr olfered unusual attractionrs.
And overn after the~ Invention of gun
po'wdor the Ininduemerits to tall men to
enter tihe army I irenised In somre c-oun
-tries, l''redor-lck thre (reat valuod0 tnllI
sold1lors hi1gh ly, aind It Is doubhtful If
liner specimens of men hravo '-ver worn
uniform than those whorn he gatibredn
around him. Naproltbon lII, resemnblerd
hlim in this respect, and visItors to)
l'aris w hile lie was emperor must, hamve
been struck by thre stately app'earance
of the rmany tall I,'ennh olienrs who
mig lit have been seen on duty at Vor
saiies and elsewhere.
" In this country men of grea
strength and heighLIt have playel
heroie parts in niany wars. We reasi
of them in legends and tiles of Revolu
tionary times, just as we readitoday o
the doughty deeis that our solder;
are doing in their fights against thi
Vii itnos.
'he first Napoleon valued tall sol
diors, but his main efforts were spon
in securing first class generals, ant
those he is said to have selected no1
according to their stature, but accord
Ing to the length and shape of thou
noses. Physical enduranco in a soldiot
was What lhe pried, and If he could
staid the strain and stress of a long
caipaigt he Cared little its to his stat
tire. True, among his guards thorc
Wert soite notably tall men, and, in
deed, it is safe to say that the stature
of the imen in the ,ronech army at that
tiite Compared favorably with that o1
the men t o any other army.
" l-:ngland has long beeni famous fo'
her stately lighting m0n, and It is said
that Queei Victoria has always been
uinusuially cotplaisant to any tall sol
dier who wears her uniform. Those
who have seen the Life Guards in Lon
ton, know what an English soldier of
this type Is like. Soane are too apt to
look on these colosal oficers and mon
a14 mhere orlltmments and appendages of
an eLfete monarchyv, which Is absurd,
since there Is ample evidence that,
when real fighting is to be done, there
are no more dauntless warriors on the
face of the earth. Such a man was
the inte Capt. l-'red l1turnabv. who ae
lieved so tmuch dtistinction sotno years
ago by his admirable work describing
his travels through Asia. When trou
bie broke out in Egypt he iwont with
his men to the front, and When the
itioment of battle eatme he swept for
ward at once to that point where the
lighting was fiorcest. hound him his
dusky opponents swiarmed, striving to
unseat from his horse the tali muscular
Fnglishman, whose strong right arm
was making havoc in their ranks, but
net until he was iWounded to death did
he cease to tight for England, ant
Etng laud had the satisfaction of know
ing that lie had cut down half a doZon1
of her foemen before he himself went
to join thei."
--No 4m
SOUTHERN TEXTILE, INTELESTS,
The Itapid Developiient ot' Textile
Manut'acturing Intereste-A Rail
road Lautlable Work.
The Textile Excelsioc, a leading au
thority in textile interests, has the
following to say of the Southern 4ottori
mill development and of the work of
the Southern Itailway in connectior
Vith it:
"The rapid development, of textih
manufacturing interests in thc South
ern States has created a groat deal o
interest among writers for the dall,
and trade papers. That developmen
has been so marked as to attract no
only the attention of mon actively cot'
nected with the industry, but of ecor
omic and industrial students through
out the entire country. There must
of course, be certain practical advau
tages for manufacturing, advantage
of a most pronounced character, be
fore such a development could o0 pos
sibie. The South has these advan
tages.
" The greater growth of the textil
industry in the SouIth has naturalll
been in the dovetbpiient of cotto
manfacturing. And this dovelopmon
hais been along the line of cortilIn larg4
railway systems, notably the Southert
in II90, accordin g to the return;
made to the Census Iureau, there wer
in the States of Alabama, Georgia
Kentucky, Mississ-ipI, North Carolin
Soth Carolina, 'lennossue anti V r
tiles. ini those same States, on J an:
ary 1, this year, there were 95,55m
looms and :3,79tai,00 sindlios. Tlhi
shows an increase Of l;Is per cent. I
the formier antd 147 per cent. in tbh
latter. TChore in these States nowv 41
cotton mills, of w hlih 211 are locateo
on the Southern htailway.
"Judging fromi prosent Intdicatlon
the development of thbe textile lndui
try In the South has just begun. Sev
oral now nulls have boon located alon,
the hin of the Southern Itallwvay to be
constructed within the next twelv,
months, and on sonic of them work ha
already begun. In addiition to thies
new mills1 a great, many of those nom
in opieratlion are adtding new machin
cry andI in other ways making prepara
tions tfo enlarge their output.
"A wortd of praiso e isuon the South
ern tailway for the work It has dom
In promotIng cotton spinning andl othei
textlilo manufacturing in thie South,
it is ding notable and laudlable work
ini developing the rich section of tlie
South that, it traverses. Th'le umiany
new nillIs thbat, are going up show that
thet pleople along its lines aiprecfate
the raIlroad's efforts anti are endoavor
Inrg to assist, it, in utilizing the atdvan
Lages that nature has pilaced withir:
their reach.
" Thmo fact, that thu Southern lha
moon able to eqip and mianaigo one 3
the best, railway systems of thin coun
try shows conclusively that tile South:
Is prospering and uindler like contditiom
wIllI continue to prosper."'
-Tlhue State branch of the N atlona
Association of ILotbor Carriers met Ii
Cnarloston last week arid electeod ofill
cers for thme ensuing year as follows
'riisidont, A. IC. O)'l)onnell of Charles
ton ; vIce president,, T1. C. Long a
Gronnville ; secretary anti treasurer
II. fe. Scott of Coilumb ia. Spartanhurni
was naimed as the place of meeting toi
1900I, andi thi delegate to the Nationa
convent~lon was infitructod to vote to
the equnal Izatlion of salarles.
--A statistician has heen dini
somfe figuring on smoking in Ierance
with this result : " In Ierance ther
areot,000O,000 smokers arid of every if tco
thbere are eight w ho smoke a pipe, liv
who smoke cigars, and only two wh
tuse cigat tes. St,1ll thy, mo ,(
000 cigarettes a year, or enough to g
arountd the world 500) timiots If the
were placed end to tind in a liIno."
--ilotha the United Sttos senator
from Alabama have reached a rly
old age. Morgan is 75 and Poettus 70
-iotter let .3our witfo have a flt, U
hysterics than to run In debt for asgill
dress or a piano.
A NOUBLK AND UNSELFlISH DERCD
Gra(itudo of an Ex-Confederate to
His Federal Preserver.
On Memorial day in 1815 Mrs. Sarah
Howen, of Uobokon, paid her annual
visit to Cypross Hills comotery to do
corate hor husband's grave. Mrs.
Bowen was in such poor, almost ndi
gent circutustancos, thAt even the trip
to lBrooklyn, not reckoning the money
for flowers, was a strain on her slender
resources. She was a votoran's widow,
and. the $8 a month pension allowed
her on that account by the national
government was all she had to support
herself and an invalid daughter.
Nevertholess she had pot formod her
obligations to the memory of the bravo
for thirteen coisecutlivo years with ro
ligious devotion.
When sho arrived on tho ground on
this occasion, her no'rvous system re
coixed such a shioek that she was ob
liged to lean against a railing adja
cent, to save horsolf from falling.
" What the meaning of this ?" she
murmured, closing her eyes and open
ing thom again in the expoetation that
sho was laboring under an optical do
tiusion.
The caus'j of tho widow's astonish
motint was a clange that had takon
daceo in tho gravo since her last visit.
t was covered with flowers, it was
bordered with overgroon plants, and a
handsomo grai ito column roso at its
head, with the subjoinod inscription
ongraved in deep black lotters :
"Sacced to the Miemory of Eldward
C. ilowen, a brave Solder and a Loyal
Priend."
Tho widow glanced wonderingly to
the right and the loft. She looked up
and down, but thero was no mistake.
The grave was that of her husband,
but what a meotamorlplosis had boon
etlectod.
While dolihoBrating as to what shC
would do in the promises a tall, muili.
tary looking gentleman of aristocratic
bearing and with an empty sleeve
alighted from a6 carriago tear by, and
taking a wreath fromu under ItA seat,
approached the gravo. 110 hesitated
wheon ho saw the widow, and their eyes
uet. llers had a question look it
them ' his On1e Of deprecation, as if ho
were a trosiiasor.
" iadan'," ho said, placing tlt'
wreath on the grave and liftin his I .%
as he would to a duchess, " havo I the
honor-"
" This is my hueshat's grave," she
replied, with an almost im perceptible
strain of jealousy it her voice.
" Then I must ofTer an apology and
an explanation. I should havo con
suited you before etecting alterations
here, and so, in fat, I would, orly I
could not find you, though I tried
hard."
" It ivas very kind in you, sir," said
Mrs lowen. "You would tind it hard,
it, I ,.
for no orm in rooik,vn knew tht.iha
moved to lbobokenl.'
"V-This is my explanation," said the
t geitleman after a pause. " My name
is Chas. J. Gray--Judge (iny, 1 an
called-and I atm all ex-Confeder'ato
soldter. I bolonged to the Montgom
ery Guards, and Perved fn the Army >f
Northern V irginia the last two yeat s
of the war. You must know--thougl
perhaps you don't-that sometimes
"'ederals and Contfdorato soldiers in
the iieid were OXClOlent, friends, os
poeially wh n doilng Ontpost duty to
gether, if I may use the words. It
often occurred that nothing but a fence
separated our sentioims, and that, in
stead of iri ng at each other wo chatted
sociably and exchanged vlows on the
situation. Our superiors did not, sane
tion this, but they colilived at it. On
tie night of the fourth day's battle of
the Wilderness I Was postod as senti
nel oil the oxtreme front of our lines.
On the other side of a picet felnce was
a young man of the One I lunudred atnd
iForty-lVour-th New York regiment,, his
naimo-weoil, there it, is onlgravied on
that stonoe. We entered into conversa
Stion. I gave ihim a plug of tobacco, he
ga ,' me seome coiou, anid we became
g uito friendly. I was utterly ox haust
o d, antd would have giv'en tile Wholo
wolrld for one hour'ts sioop.'"
I l'oor follow," said thte wilow, com1
m tisorating not, the elegant, gentleman
ill tifrnt, of iher, but the ragged, war
worn soldicir of onte and thtirty years
ago; ''it was terribio."
"it was, imadami. i told miy Yantkeo
e nemy t hat I was ready to drop antd
a begged himt inot, to take advatage of
inc lie11 laughemd."
"Sit do(wn on i thtt stone, ' ho0 said,
-'lean way black against thte fence and1(
Bleep. I will wake yout upl whein your
rolief comies along."
"It, may seom incrediblo, hut, I took
his advice, thus placing mty life it the
ha~nds (of a toe anid and a stranger.
slop~t, (oh, such a sweet sleep.
thiought I had been in slumtber for a
tow mitnutes, whtilo in reality I had slopt
ant htour, whon Nod flowon rensed mte
bly throwintg seine water from itis canl
toen do(wn my bi~iack.
"'Jummp u~p, Johnny,' ite saidi, 'lily
relief is comning. Yeu are all right,
for I receivedl your oihoor of the guard
goling his rounds, and ho gaveotri thto
eoutersign w ithtout, HuIt cionl. I guess
all tihe poor foliows l ike yout are htalf
asleop or thtey WOuld~ have dlscoveredl
the~ trick. Now, don't, go to 51loop
again, (lid man. Goodhy.'
''It ap~pears thatt wilie te Cont
federate ni ghtm olli cor was approlachling,
Ned I lowen, heaven rest himli, jum111pod
over the fence r,d, faulli ng to wake mo1(
- uip, took my iri li antd c hal lengeod th us
:lplacing his life in per1il. When halbf
an holur later I got, back ito tilt guardl
teont, I learnetd that two other 5(onti
,nels hlad bo101 on ound aoiloop ont theIr
posts. T'hey wore shtot ntoxt morning,
- and now, miadamt, you willl, I trutst, be
I not lonigor surprised( a1s this imonumtenlt,
r I htave erecteod to muy preserver.
'rhe wIdow c rtonded 110r hand11 wile
thte totars (If pridoi and1( om(tlion rol led
dow(lOi her taco.
'' "10(d bless you,'' shio said, '' you
a itave a noble hoart,.''
Next (lay Mr. Hlowenl received a
1) letter enclosing a treasury r'ote Per
I) $1,000, anti 51in( then ont thte first say
-(of every miontth 1411 gets a check on
3 thio lVir't Natilonal blank of Atlanta for
Y $30.
4 11a11 thle battle ini duingi or relijevingi)
hi teumati and11( Ne ralgic and1( alil othier
,paini is to' gect ia liiinmentI that penectratoCs
don toi the cause and~ roots it ou1t . Alil
atolr jiimeni~tt is th most sentratiiig
m imenlot known to the trado,. , old every.
whnir.
THE
NEW
STORE.
Drows Like A Moane!
This store is undoubtedly an attrac
tion; Now Goods, Good Goods, stylish
Goods at tho pricos wo numo will never
fall to attract tho attontion of the pub
lic. Not ono spocial articlo thrown out
as a "cateher,' but ovory itom in the
storo markod at a prioo that defles
undorsollitig for liko qualitios. The
chalin is never stronger than its woak
est link, and the busIness success of
any store eati be measured by tho con
ldenco th public has in that busItness.
Summer is Here!
In dead evarnost. You fool like gotting
Iito strietly sauumor apparol. O tr
assortlment of those protty, dainiity,
"hlvor (1iualties of Organdlos, i)imitlos,
I,awnls, G ingyhams, otc.. is untimatch
aho-very pattorn a now one. Mig
values In all classes of White Goods,
Lawns, Organdios. Dimititis, l"K and
Sw isses, l''rench Nainsook, & c.
Our Hostery Department, also
Underwvear is very strong.
Our Shoo DBBtM6i4
You will find the trustworthy kid
every pair now. I 'rices entirely
conom ical. in hi ing for our jobbing
as well as our retal dopartment wo are
enable to buy cheaper than any shoo
man il Groenvllo.
XV'' lemember we are nainita for the
celobrated Mct'aill tizar l'atterns, price
t1 ild lai ventil.
MiIke it a ,oit to visit the Now tore
at the' tirsqt olivortunity, nt ,1. it. Mtorgan A
11rother's ol, stand.
MAHON & ARNOLD,
211 Uppr Mtain St. G lMNENV ILM2.
!)1W Y1Y's FAMOUS inAIManykgT.
Sailors From the Olympia may it Was
A Fake---Anmnunitiltion Was lun
ting Low aud I)ower Was Doubt
All.
GilAulti.:MTON, May 13.-Many Jolly
ars, votoran&I of the Manila light,, are
now plain citilzous again. Thoir tornms
expliroed today, andl they received their
ditschargos. Some pirocoeded to paint
theo town a glorious May 1st rod, but
others took the tirst, traina for distant
homos10. A number of these follow.
,wero 01n the Olymiai, ilowov's flagship.
Thoy wero sent, homeo on theo 1.aleigh
8o that, they might, loavo the servloe
when tlheir timel wasl out,. Only enough
are loft on tho Italoighi to iman it and
soon1 the famlious vossol wilt horself go
out, of commlisin for ropairs.
T1he OlympIa's muon givo a different
vorsion of tihe break fast inoilont. T1wo
of them wore aisked particularly about
that, little1 matter and they were amuih
amllused. They said that, the reason
l)owey g ave to order to cease tiring
and1 draw out of range at, breakfast
time wat a more serious miattor than
the mere scouring of refreshments The
break fast, was, in fact, served but it
didn't, amount, to much after all.
I)ewoy had boconmo aware of the faot
that his fleet was fast using up the
amnemnition, and 1h0 wished to asor
taln if it, would be safe to continue the
fIght. When the firing coasod, each
ship's captain rOeported the amaount of
anmmunitlon loft, and It. was found to
be siullicient, for a fight which must, not.
hist long, and just about, this time signs
of tire were soon en thlo 8panish yes
sols. Then i)ewoy seized tbe oppor
tunity and sailed into the flght, again
and won. lie missed by a hlair's-broadth
losing the fame whc h1o111 now p)ossesses.
The mon11 hiohtind the guns wore told not,
to wasto t Ii am muition. Tihey madg
every shot tell and saved tho day. And
t~lh) men1 hohind1( the guns now toll the
tialo.
TIhotst, sallor lads areocapital good fol
h)ws, aind when one gets acquainted
withb Lthom1 it, Is not suarprisin g that the
Uniteod States navy can sink hostile
ilootsi so easily. Th'ley are quick Intel
lootually as well as p)hysloally, and
know what they have to (do. The navy
10505 some good mnon by the dieeharge
of these tars, most, of whom say they
have had enough of life up)on the
Louinding umain.
JAS. A. LloYT, J..
-Lots of men would never he recog..
nized as fools if they dlidn't fall in love
andl~ give tuom~fselves away.
CASTOR IA
]for Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Mantr of