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The People's Journ pICKENS S. C. BRYAN SCORUS THE TRUSTS. A PoWERFUL ARRAY OF FACTS. Suggested Remedies for the Giant Evil-The Trusts Can be Killed if the People Are In Earnest, The conference on the uses and abuses of trusts closed its session in Chicago in a blaze of oratory. Wm. J. Bryan and Bourke Cochran were the central figures and Mr. Bryan made a great speech, and received an ovation equal to his reception In 1890 when he won the nomination for Presi dent at Chicago. Mr. Bryan was introduced by Gov ernor Stanley, of Kanst, who aoted-.as cha~ir ehgi-iienlig session. Wild plause greeted the Nebraskan. W. Bourke Cochran listened intently and joined frequently in the applause. Mr. Bryan spoke, in part, as follows : " Within two years, more trudts have been organized than in the pre vious history of the country and tho people now como face to face with this question : "'Is the trust a blessing or a curso. If a cure, what remedy can be applied to the curso ?' " Monopoly in private hands Is inde fensible from any standpoint and in tolerable. I do not divide monopolios. There can be no good monopoly in pri vato hands until the Almighty sends us angels to preside over us. " There may be a despot who is bet ter than another despot, but thoro is no good despotism. The defense of the monopoly Is always placed on the ground that if you will allow peopl to control the markets and fix the prico they will be good to the people who purchase of them. The entire defense of the trusts rests upon a money argu ment. If the trusts will sell an article for a dollar loss than the article will cost under other conditions, then In the opinion of some, that proves a trust to be a good thing. In the iiri placo I deny that under a monopoly the prico will be reducoi. In the second place, If under a m11onopoly th price is reduced, the objectiO!ns to a monopoly from other staldinta1fltn far outweigh the financlal advantage that the trust would bring. But I protest against settling every question upoi the dolla- argument. " In the early years of LfcincolnY Ud ministration lie soAt a mnessaco to Con gross, warning his countrynien agjainb the approach of monarchy. Lie said he saw in the atteipt tU put capittl even upon an equal footing with 'L.hor in the str ucture of governament, tihe approach of monarchy. Lincoln -. right. Whenever yoi put opi upon an equal footing w .th ibr, or above labor in the structure of 'veru ment, you aro on the road to aid a ov - ernment that restw not on reason, t on force. " Nothing is more imiportant than that we shall, in th beginning, rbhtly understand the relation netween i monoY and man. Mai le the creatuee of God ad money is the servant of man, and I pro test against all theories that enh ron. money and debase mankind. "If you will go about over the cona try, you will see wvhero people' have subscribed money to est.blish enter prises, and where these enterprises9 having come under the control of thio trusts hkave been closed up and !:t now as silent monumente to the Sodec.: of the trust system. "In any ease of local strikes and fires, the work goes on elsewhere. thur preventing serious loss. " When a branch of industry is found in the hands of one of the great muo nopolies so that every skilled man, must go to one man for employment, heone man fixes the wages as ho pleases and the laboring men will then -hare the suffering of the man who sells tho~ raw material. " I want to warn you that when the monopoly has absolute control, brains will be at a discount. We have not yet had a taste of a compilete trust. But when the'trust has rid itself of all competitors what is going to be the re sult, by which, my friends, all you have to know is human nature. God madte man selfish. " On the farm we used to protect property from the hogs by putting ring in their noses. Why ? So that while they wore getting fat, they would not destroy more than they were worth. One of the great purposes of govern ment is to put rings in the noses of hogs. If I were going to try to find the root of the monopoly evil, I would go back to~the Bible for an explana tion, and I would find it in the declara tion that the love of money is the root of all evil. "Falling prices, caused by a rising dollar, and the high tariff, have con tributed the desire to secure the fruits of the monopoly. "Some have suggested that to put everything on the free list that trusts make, would destroy the trust. But I do not believe that you could destroy all trusts by putting all trust-made articles on the free list, because If an article can be produced in this country as cheaply as it can be piroduced abroad, then the trust could exist without the benefit of any tariff at all, though it. could not extort so much. We cannot destroy monopoly until we lay the axe at the root of thbe tree, and make monopoly impossible by law. "IDiscrimination by railroads has aided trusts. That can ho reinedied by laws which will place pr'oducers on equal footing. But thu remedy must be complete right to provent the o ganization of a monopoly. We dhiLer more in remedy than we do in our opinion of the trust. Veow 1)e01)1 will defend the trust as a princi ple. As to the remedy both State and nation should have concurrent remiuc. In the first place every State has, or< should have, the right to create any private corporation which is conduciv'e to the welfare of the p~eople of that State.1 I believe that we can rafoly entrust to the people of a State the settlement of a question which concerns thoem. If they create a corporation and it be comes destructive of their best in terests they can destroy that cor pora tion and we can safely trust them both to create and to annihilate if condi-J tions make annihilation necessary. "LIn the second place, the State has I or should have the right to prohibit any foreign corporation from doing business in the State, and it ought to have or has the right to impose such restrictions and limitations as the pee pie of the State raay think necessary . pnany foreign corporation doingc buiesin the State. I believe in an addition of State remedy, but there mu~st be a Federal remedy. "Congress has, or shoul:1 have, the power to place such restrictions and t limitations, even to the point of prohi- a ition, upn y opijporation organized 5 outside of the State contrary to public good. " I believe that those concurrent remedies will reach the difiloulty, that the people of every State shall first decido whether they want to create a corporation ; that they shall, secondly, decide whether they want any outside corporation to do business in the State and if so, upon what condition and, thirdly, that Congress shall exercise the right to place upon every corpora tion doing business outside of the Stato in which it is organized, such limita tions and restrictions as way be neces sary for the protection of the public good. "I am ready to adopt any method for the annihilation of trusts. One that I suggest is this; " That Congress should pass a law providing that no corporation organiz ed in any State should do business out side of the State in which it Is organiz ed until it receives from some power, created by Congrose, a license autho rizing it to do businees outside of its own State. Now if the corporation must come to this body created by Congress to secure permission to do business outsido the State, then that liconso can be granted upon conditions which will, in the first place, prevent the watoring of stocks; in the second plaoo, prevent monopoly in any branch of business ; and, third, provide for publicity as to all of the transations and business of the corporat~.n. " If this is unconstitutional, and so declared by the supreme court, I am in favor of an amendment to the consti tntian that will give to Congress power to destroy overy truts in the country. In my judgment, when you take from monopoly th > powor to issuo watered stock you will go more than half the way toward destroying monopoly in the United States. " You can provide for publicity, and that annually or at such other times the corporations 6hali mako roturns of its business or its earnings, which will go another long stp toward the do. structiun of the principle of monopoly. " But I am not willing to tstop tnero, and, tlarofore, as a third condition, I tuggest, that no license shall bo grant Ud 1uti1 LihO .Jorpora~ion sli9ws that it has n1j" havd i Uonopioly and is nLot a lowilig a moioplt)iy of any branch of indus:'try or ay) at-Lielo of iltiekhand iL, anou (n.lal provid' ttift if Ohe law is vibul!-A. t t cm, bo r--vokud I do 110, bo i 1 U... th L !-' ri: int givii.' prjivi ge t. be ex(;ra.: o( by a corportationa v9,.!'th I it~tt r ervit pt:h le. L0w3it. raw t V. nt: 111. 0 that I 'mv in iec.es a n '''ry "uvai-ta. ' 1 hav, - .tve t.:mm n)ta.; b) ea9t 'ivn h ii the r e i m n 'o er p p y merst., ,em of are a 0tn ' aak,. . : . -. Anba ieh rwod r'~evdy at h:tj'.i' iw'a, c';. a. I ihave' no kc. 'W'I L ma -no,1tn. b hea alei to sedcr atO t forur o' 9 9 Oat as, to~ heL a9 mIena)ic' to. do . ikate of gnis ..".hejod mlade' .iorl bet p11a9:d a lit to his L.exiece, :-O that. if he was ai bad man he' can not, do ham lontr, but when we mado outr mas made man), ('.to corpioration) we rasecd the limit of his age. " I want to) priotest against I his doc trine that the trust is a natural out strombh of natural lawe. It, is nlot true. The trust is ti'o natur'al outgrowth of unnatur-al cend~itions ecated by wan made laws. "Government under the foui- great principles of the declaration of inde pendence is imnpossible under an in dustrial aristocracy. " Some people oavo tried to separate the laboring man who works in the factory from the laboring man who works en the farm. I want to warn the laboring men in the factories that they cannot separate themselves from those who toil on the fairm without in viting their own destruction. I warn the laboring men In the factoriec that when they join with the monopolies to crush the farmer, as soon as thae farm er is crushed, the laboring man will be crushed, and ' Is ally will be de stroyed and in a test of endurance, the farmer will stand it longer than the laboring man. The farmer was the first man on the scene when civiliza tion began, and he will be the last one to disappear. You may dIrive) the farmer down, so he cannot buy coal, but he can burn corn. But you div-le the coal miner down so he can not buy corn and lie cannot eat coal. But, mny friends, why should we try to see who could hold out tho longest in suffering ? Why try to see who can endure the most har-dships and yet live ? Why not try to sce who can con tribute most to the greatness and to the glory and to the prosperity of this nation ? Why, those who can contri bute most would make this govern ment what the fathers intended it foi-. F'or 100 years this nation has been the light of the world. F~or 100 year-s the best of all nasions have looked to thIs nation for hope andI instr'uction. Let us~ settle thoso great (questions that, we i),Ohav ' bfor': us, let, uis tceh the( worlid the blessing of a - governmient thiat. omos from the peop e fad l10l us show bhemn how happiy andt lhow' pr'oiiperous op'.o can be,. I beli eve fu the3 de ,r c th 9at God m9udoj ail i''m of the. uiu 93ulst and1 9 did not, make 00m ti, o arawl on hands an1d knees.C' andau others"i o0 ide( uipon the.ir' backs. Let us s3how v'hat can he done19 wh en we plutI ino wtuai pr'actlco those ;grerat d ca~tin >f bumwan eq(ua99lity and0 of equ raighitjOts nui mdake this gOoin-mont, w hat the athers in tendedl, so that we shall1 lead he world stop~ b~y 8i'ip on to higher frounmd. Iainig a sea of wildly wvaving armis indl a storm of cheo'rs the orator- re mimed his seat. At the aafternaoon 'xession, whent ae eria~l (di9~issioni wat in priogress, 1 r-i' V.. 1). F,,ulke, of Indliaml09 moach E hort speech, in which ho dole9.re9'd I hat hao fatileud to 50o that the r'eme'discn iropoedt by Colonel JBryani in the atteor speec~h du ring thme mfornio .osion could cesult in the attniamnon', I i the object sought. for. Mr'. lBryan, c vas sitting in the hack part, of the hall, a nid when he arose to reply the audi noco insistcd upon his goin to the latform, when ho spoke as folow ;,V "I would not, occupy the time again, ut for' the. fact that the gentleman t roam .Indiana (Mr. F"Oulik) has referred I o a plan which 1 suggetesi and I am I fraid that he does not fully under- c tand. My plan was this: "First, that the State should h oe t I.. the right to creato whatever private corporations the people of the Stata think best. "Second, that the State. has, or should have, the right to impose such limitations upon an outside corpora. tion as the people of the State may think necessary for their own protec tion. That protects the rights o( the people of the State to say first, what they shall organize in their State. as a corporation, and, second, what they shall permit as a corporation to come from other States who do business in their State. " Third, that the Federal govern ment has or should have the right to impose such restrictions as Congress may think necessary upon any corpora thin which does business outside of the State- in which it is organized. In other words, I would preserve to the people of the State all the rights they now have, and at the same time have Congress exercise a concurrent remedy to supplement the State remedy. I would not take away from the people of the State any right now existing, but I would have the Federal govern ment and the State government exer cise the powers that may be necessary to annihilate the monopoly. I do not agree with the gentleman that you cannot annihilate a monopoly. (Ap plause.) I believe it is possible to do so. "I havo no doubt that any remedy that is proposed will be assaulted. If those who believe that the trust must remain, and thosr who believe that the trust means good, will accept the best remedy they can find, try it and then accept a better one if a better one is proposod and keep on trying until the people aro protected. (Applause.) "Now, I am not sure the remedy I proposo is unconstitutional. L am not sure that the constitution would pro hi'bit such an act of Congress as I sug gest. Suppose Congross should say that whenover a corporaton wanted to do business outsido of the State, it must apply to and receive from some body created by Congress for the purt pose of a licenso to do business. Sup posa the law should provide three con ditions upon which the licenso should bo issued: " First, that the evidence shall alow that there is no wator in the stock. " Socond, that the evidenco should show that this corporation has'not in the pain, and is not attempting now to monopolizo any branch of industry or a branch of any article of inorchan iise ; and, " Third, providing for that publicity w hich ev(ry body has spokon of, and Li bolt whicheb everybody agrees. Sup Io; 1hat i- done. Who is hero to say tht, such a law would be uncoustitu lMtw L Hi uOl;t.-. t~ho lawQ is passcd .>rI 1- 111:nc11i-u o a then WA en amerli the cur -titution. Thc gezl th mnrn 'u te iI2.h t it is a Li llbitult 1. to 0 t 1.10.4 thirdS of botih beoVu a to f!av, amot m nt aml i ' t-Iurh 0fue ata. 'That is ta u,. , P. ih a Lif. b -0 .0 1,. nu ii Whn On0010 vant, to ' r ' ti o .ru t,, you caull get two of both houses and thrce-lourths >h .t ~- . 1343 what'is the alter bnative ': t down and do ioth ilag ? S' t.. h-; LO trmnple upon you, and ...ou-h 0hod over you, and then Lha)k G.d that YOU still have some i ? I< tbat the only remedy ? "'The Ausrican l)eople are entitled the bh t hat th..ru is ? (Applause.) I'r*y arofn, led to the best system on 'vtry subyc .. I belie- when these qjuwttons are presented to the Amc-i enn pb ople thbey will select and secure .1 bet, bystem.l I don't believe it ne~cessary for uts to sit down quietly and luermit a great aggregation of wealth to strangle every competitor. I dlon t believe that, it is in aocordance witu outr dignity as a peCople, or in ac cordance with the rights of the people, to say, because a great corporation is otrganlized, that therefore it should be permittea to go into the field of a new corporation, undersell it mntil it bank rupts it, r. ising the mon sy by higher prices somewhere clse. I don't think it is necessary for us to do that. I have only suggested a plan. It may not be the best plan. If you have any thing better, propose it. If thoere is any amnendment that, you can think of that will improve it, suggest it. I am anx bots to accept anything. "Lot me suggest one other thing that I believe will be a stop) in the right direction. The great trouble has been that while outr platforms de nounce corporations, corporatione con-4 trol the elections and pliacc under oh ligation to them the mon who arc. elected to enforce the law. (Applause.) Let me propose a remedy-not a rem edy, hut a stop), I think, in the right diroction. Let the laws, State and na tional, imako it a penai offense for- any I corporation to contributes to tile cam- t paign fund of any political party. (Continued cheers and applaumso.) Ne- c braiska has such a law, p~assed two a ye-ars ago. Tennessee has such a law, a p~assed two years since. Sutch a lal v was pas9sed, or was introduced in the State of Now York, but so far it has not reache-d the stage of actual law in the State of New York. (Liughter-.) New 1 believe it is a stop) in the right direction. You remember the testi. mony taken before a Senate committoeo a few year-s ago, when the head of a sugar trust testified that the sugar trust made It its business to contribute to campaign funds ; and when asked to o which oneO it contributed replied that il it depended upon circumstancos. "'To lb wvhich fund do contribute in Massa- I chusetts, ' was asked. "rTo the Repub lcan fuand." "b To which fund in New I York." " To the D amocratic fund '' o To which fund in New Jersey," and F' the man sayr, "' Well, I will h'ave to '1 rook t,< the books, that is a doubtful tl Mtate-, (Continued laughter and ap- p lausec Now, that is almost a literal croduction of the testimony of one rea:Lt corpoeration on the subject of a ~a'paign contributIons. i don't mean n .0 say thmat the remtediy will be a comu- e )late one, buLt I believe that when you d b ntg to campaign) funds theat you take ar tp in the right dire~cction toward bot ,ar legislation, because some corpor'a ,ions are compelled to contribute; they ire liackmalled into contribultions and ochi a law would protect a corpora-. ,lon that, did not want to contribute mnd also prevent, a corp~oratlion fromh :ontributing that did want to contri-a "If the peop1)1 airo in earnest they an do it, and you never could do any lung in thio countr-y until the people y .2nC in earn~est. WVhen the AnmrIcan tA scoplio understand what, t-hc mnuopoly 0o tuestions mtoans I beliovo that thore aj vill beO no po.wor, po0litieal, financial ti le other w ieo. to prevent the people be rom~ taking posseselon of ovetry branch ci >f governument, from Presient to the i oupcomm Court, and making. a govern- a ment restponsible to thc peolie's will '' Gheer-.) h --Sir- Moses Ezekial, of Rome, Italy, D] he well known soutllptor-, who is visiting ti n Cincinnati, was dutring tile clvil war d< n this country, a .member of the cadet cc or pa of 7irginia Military Instituto, es nd took part with the corps in the bat- em Le of Newmarket- fr AN OLD 601HEMEB UEVLVE) Sub-Treasury Ware Houses for As cultural Products Impracticabi Private Individeaals May Use P] With Good Chance of Success. Louisville Courier-Journal. The old sub-treasury scheme of w, houses for agricultural products wh fallacies were so completely dem strated by Mr. Carlisle, then a Senat In a famous letter to oilloials of 1 Farmers' Alliance, has been revi1 in a new and probably a practi form. The plan now is to make I private enterprise and manage it, other ware houses are managed, o on an extensive scale. Fireproof w houses are to be built, in which fa products are to be stored and on wh receipts are to be given which will endorsed by a burety company, i w ill then be available as collateral a where. The benefit to farmers will be ti on such. collateral they will be abit get loans at much lower rates ti they can obtain advances upon tu crops, and in this way they can h1 for better prices if they desire. 'J movement was made considerable p gress in Georgia, whoru it has recoi% the ondorsement of the bankers and the State Agricultural Soolety. Ai is designed first to look out for the turusts of tht, cutton planters, andi they have received the proposition w entnusiasm, the mattur has already tracLed a great dual of attention in I cotton markuts. It is a littie curious that the schei Which Mr. Carlisle's incisive logic mercliessly demolished should re, pear at this juncture with a gc chance of succoss, but the plan I been shorn not only of the propol Government, support,, but of it0 ottt oxtravagiaut foatures. As the Farme Allianuu urged it, the Government, N to provide the waro houses and f urni tlu money aL 2 per cent per annum 80 per cent of the mua.*ket value of t products stored. The plan of thu N Yol k capitalists who are behind t present movemont, whilo it will sup, the planter with the advances ho 1 quires on his crops, and take care uem as the Government was to t, provides that a fair rate of Inter bhall be charged as agreed upon by t ware housing company and the cc signor. The agent of the ware housing coc plfny, fOr Instance, can go to a cott miil and taku a leasu on its ware nout thereby securing a lien upon tihe sto, of cotton goods upon which tnui m desires to secure a loan. Viue wa house compaUy'd agentts will issuo r ceipts for tibe articles contalned a[ will occupy the legal and real Stat of an ordinary ware house compan Then a surety company will undertal to duarane th.e delivery. q 'tant aI grad of the gooud. storou in L, waiirc. acuse. The cotton Will can tUake the wa housU receipt with the surety co paay's guaranteo and ten maku loan at 80 per cent, of the value of it goods at very low rates. Tho san Mode of procedure could be applit to CatLon otorou ia the ware house, uther agricultural pruuuctts. TL double guarantce of the ware houw and the surety company would gij the receipts a very high charactor i collateral. In short, they would I very nearly the same as the whiske receipts which the Kentucky Disti lery and Ware flouse Company 1pu poses to issue. Whiskey receip issued by ware houses are of ti b ighest character, though the "prival ware house " receipt nas ca.t con: :liseredit upon them. The schleme will require a great de, f monev to carry it out on a larI scale, but the Bstart may be made in trmall way, and there la much Idl money In the United States nowy thn 3ouid be profitably employed In th manner. Moreover, by placing It I ~he power of the farmer and planter t 2orrow upon easier' terms, It woul end to do away with the geteoral cui ency discontent,. Batznks cannot len ipon agricultural products, but the 3an lend upon such ware house ri :eipts as proposed, and a New Yor mank couIld thus lend upon cotto tored in Georgia or Louisiana. TEMS 01F GENEiCAL INTUEltE's1 2nalnt and (Jurious Paragraph, GatheredI fromi Various 8oures. -R .,ar A dmiral So bley h as acce pte ,n invitation to v.sitJiAtlanta during th oming fall. --Mrs. Richard P. Bland is collect ng material for a life of her late hius 'and, the famous Congressman. -Martin L. Sweet, former mayo iGrand RapIds, Mich., and for year ccounted the richest man in th itate, is now earning a living by tend ng the city garbage crematory. - James Oliver, of South fBend, Ind. as just, celebrated his seventy-sixtl irtuday. When a young man b rork'3d in a Mishawaka foundry for 5i ents a day. Now he owns the larges lough factory In the world. -Miss Biraddon, the famous novel int, who has just, puolished. her six loth book, rejoices in the fatct, that th nly picturc of her ever printed wa om a photograph made so long agt hat no one can now recogniz ) the orig ial. -There are nearly $13,000,000 In th< [nited States treaisury, the proceedi sales of cotton which fell into th< 'ederal hands during the civil war 'he money belongs to the owners o: 'io cotton or their heirs, if they cai rove their claims. -An officoial of the treasury Is qjuote( i saying that owing to the g reat, bust ess act~Ivity the demand for fractional arroncy is unprecedented, and that lines, quarters and half dollars are cing turnedl out at all the mints as tpidly as possible. --A woman of perfect li.gure should clgh 138 pounds and be 5 feet 5 inchm 1,ll. She should measure 5 feet iches from the tip of one middle fin. sr to the till of the other when the e~ms are extended. Th e length of the and ought to be just on c-tenth of this id one-sevent~h should be the length~ the foot. -The average man, living for 50 lars, consumes between 14 and 15 ns of bread in a lifetime. The weight solid food of all kinds he consumes igregatos the startling total of a f rae con less thani 55 tons, while on the tsl of three pints per day he msumes 42M tons of liquid. Think of me woman's toll in preparing this imount of food and drink -William Kissamn Vanderbilt, who as now become the head of the Van arbilt family, will be 50 years old In ecember. He is essentially a man of me world ; has owned a racing stable, ufended the America's cup driven a ach-and-four and cruised in almost rery sea in his own steam yacht. The timate of his present fortune varies om $75.000.000 to $9nnO0nna nna WEEKLY OVROp BULLETIE. COLUMBIA, S. O.,'Sept. 19, 1899. The week ending Monday, Septem an ber 18, 1899, averaged slifhtly cooler than usual, although the emperature departures were small. A maximum ire temperature of 92 degrees occurred at re St. Matthews and Yemassee, and a Dn minimum of 52 at Greenville and Spen er. 'r There were light to heavy showers e on the 10th and 11th over the western ca, and northern portions of the State after which the week was dry anJ cool, affording ideal weather for gath Ra ering crops, and for preparing lands lre and sowing rye, oats and wheat. The 4rm indications are that a larger acreage rm than usual of wheat will be planted toll this fall. d The heavy rains were of great bene ind fit to growing crops, and only slightly 2Y damaging to open cotton and to bot ton land corn. Cotton coratinues to open rapidly, a and faster than it can be picked, al An though the weather was extremely fa uii vorable. Fully half of the crop has 'I boen picked, and in many jlaces un ro- opened boils are scarce. 'The yields rod are light except in sections, notably og Hampton County, where there is the o largest yield in years. Late cotton continues to grow, bloom and fruit ; neveri,heless there will bs a top crop 5n spots only. A slight improvement is reported in sea island cotton, which t is opening rather slowly. ho Late corn continues to grow nicely, and unless there comes an early frost, will be a fairly good crop. Foddor 1 pulling is about finished over the wcst 'rn counties, and it has been saved in Ud excellent condition. a4 Early rice harvest is about finished, 0( with a good yield of fine quality. Late r, rice is ripening and being cut and stacked. There is some improvement a to ba noted in upland rice. h Peas, turnips, sugar cane and sweet on )otatoes have made great improve hO ment, and with few exceptions are now *W very promising. he Fall truck is about all planted, but lY there is need of rain to germinate the e- seeds and to support the young plants. of Haying is under way, with generally 0. good yields of both grass and pea RA vines. -For the first time since the launch ing of the Great Easterr, more than forty years ago, a vessel of approxi mately the same great size is making a trial trip across the Atlantic. The dimensions of the new liner, the Ocea e nic, which sailed from England last e we.ak, surpass those of the Great Eas tern. In length it is 704 feet over all, id It is sixty-eight feet of beam, and its " d - pth is forty-nine feet six inches. Y, When loaded to its full capacity it will draw thirty-two feet six inches and L disulae3 28,500 tons. It is thus decid X edly largor than the Kaiser Wihelm der Grosse, both In length and dia placement, and larger even than the Doutchland, now building, which is to a have a displacement of 23,000 tons. 06 Ru d -A year ago Prof. L. T. Weeks, of r Winfleld, Kan., in climbing a mountain e in Switzerland lost a pocketbook con e taining $125 in gold. He notified the o authorities of his loss, but had no hope a whatever of recovering the money. e Recently he re-ceived a letter from the y olicials in Switzerland informing him i- that his pocketbook had been found r-- and tha~t its contents would be for a wvarded to him at once. e -The Paolzer steam laundry, with a o capital stock of $2,500, was chartered e last week by the Secretary of State. I. J. Philips is president and J1. E. Carter i business manager, secretary and treas e urer. a -Mrs. William R. Day, wife of the e former Secretary of State, is an ex it collent musician, a'nd has composed - a some music of a high order, n -Not a man at Altoona, Pa., enlisted 0 fur the Phnilippine war, although it is a 1great industrial centro and rushed tof d tao liberation of Cuba. y -- A THIN DISGUISE. The cuittle6'I fishihs a tricky habit of coveCring his tr acks by3 exudinRg anI inky .fluid which discolors the water and keeps him out of view. There's a good deal of a the ct'ttle fish ab~out some! advertice menCIts, notably those puriiporting to offer fniical adlvice by a woman to women. An examnination of the advertisement a will show that no offer of a docdor's ad vice is really mlade. And all the clamor -about "writing to a womanIR "' Is merely - raisedi to divert attention from the fact L that a dloctor's advice is not really offered E r and~ coimot be given. The real question A is Rnot of writing to a wmnan or a man but of writing to a d/odor, For the advice of an unqualified , woman is just as dangerous as the advice of an unqualified man. Every day add(s to the numuber of wom- * en wvho take advantage of Dr. Pierce's geinuine offer of a consultation by letter free of cost. As chief consulting physi- 1 cman of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical - Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. R. V. Pierce has, in a practice of over thirty years, treated more than hialf-a-nmillon women for female troubles with the re imark able record of ninety - eight per cent, of cures. Sick wvomen are invited Ito consult Dr. Pierce by letter, without J fear and without fee. Every letter is held as strictly private aind sacredly con fidential, and all answers are mailed sealed ini plain enivelop~es without print ing of any kiind upon them. Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription makes Weak Women Strong and Siok Women Well. v PITTS' Antiseptic lInvigorator! FOR The Stomach, Th'e Liver-, The Bowels, The Kidneys, The Blood, The Nervos, CONTAQIOU8 DISE~A8E8. Antisoptic Invigorator me a germ-k 111cr a diuretie, ai bloot(1purit'.er, a stomach and Sc nerve tonic, a stimulant for the liver and bowels. Manufacturcd by Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator Co. THOMSON,GA W For sale by druggists everywhere. A Sold by UARPENTER~ BROS.8 Greenvlfo, 8. 0. AA The Xund You nave Always .Bouglht, and whichl has been 11 use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of . and has been Made tnder his per, sould supervision since its infancy. * Allow no one to deceive you iII this. All Courterfelts, linitationus and Substitutes are but Ex. periments tilat trifle with aind endanger the health of Infants aid Childre u-Experience against Ext4rlint, What is CASTORIA tO r a is a substitiito for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops ad Sootlhing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It Contains ieitlier Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worns and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhmoa and Wind Cole. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assinillates the Food , regulates the Stonach atiol Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Tho Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. ORNUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kilid You Hve AlwayS Bought in Use For Over 30 Years. et cNTAun compANY. v" munna aTnheE. New YonK CITy. THE HONEST WIITE OAK HOME-MADE =WA GONS= MADE AT THE ZREENVILLE COACH FACTOR Are the Cheapest and Poest Special Prices for "5c. Cotton." Call and see us G. W. SIRRINE, Supt.- - - H. C. MARK I.EY, Prop. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. SOTRNAIWY Condensedl socule In Efleet S ~ Jun 11th, 1' )t. , Oondense Rohoalulo of Passenger Trains. 8TATIONS. 1L.8n- al In Eff et Juno 11th_, 1899. . harleston ......*...... 0 n" ' No.1 IHFut.M1 Bummiiiervillo........ ..........7 41 a m Northibound. No.1iJNd. 381 Ex. No. 80 B Iranichvillo-........ ...........8 65 a in D~aIly Dlaily.- Suna. Daily. " Orangoburg ........ ...........o 28 a m ......... _--.. Kingvillo................10 15 a m Isv. Atlanta, 0.?T. 7 -0a1 0m4 i 15 v. Columbia.................... 11065 a in A tlanta, la. T. 850 a 1 00 p 5 5 p12 60 a Prostity i...................12 10 n'na Nororoas.19 0 a....0 281 1 80 a Newbe~rry....... ....... 12 25p * Bluford..1005 a . ... 7 osp. .. Ninety-Six ......... ...........1 20 p n " Gainoaville... l085 a 2 b5 743pa2 Gree.nwood......... 740 ani 1 55 pm "Lula....... 0 8a 2 42 p 8 10i p 5 r. Hodges..........8 00 am 2 156pm * Crella..11 26 a 8 00 p 85 p ... r.Abevll........ A 4 a mn 4 m . T Airy ..18a.... 8 40 p.6..... r. o ton............... 8 65 a mn 8 10 pm Wesctmnster 1281m ........4 20 a .r. Anderson ...,... 80 a n 8 p " enoca..12521 p415''i.,'' p.487 a .r.Greenville..........0 TO16anin41 p m " GrenilYe.,.' 28p ~22 p.65. a .r. Atlanta............_U55pnmO b0 p : ,"partanburg. 887-p 13 p'.'...0 46 a BTATION8 E>c oun. Ml Gaffneys..420 P 8 40 p ... 725a 'lfIN No. 18. No. 12. Blacksburg .. 408 p 7 02 p ... 742 a v. reenvilo......... 5 6 p m1 16 a " a sMt.... 0p ........ ....86 a il$ai1sto0......02 2 21581 rensbr 0po7p. 120 0p V. Anderson .......4 45 pin 10 46 am . elton .................. 45 p i m 1116a v. Greensboro...11 46 p ............. r. Donuald............ 715~ p 11 40 a ii ?r.Nor folk...... ....... 8 20 a...... .....,.. v.Abovill.......-......_ u10pm 11 2 a ii Ar. Dahnvule ... 000 2a p 11r,6 .... 122 p r. Greeoo ''......80 p i.R~ioe . 0 102a Tiind~ a-... - 5 Nio ysix-......... ........12 55 i m Ar. Washington.. ....... 6 42 a ... 9 05 p Posborrty-.----.--...........2 00 p mn " Balt m-oPR R. ...8 00 a . ...1 26 p Croitiy--...... ............ 2 14 p in" Philadoelhia. ..10 15 a... 2 60 a --lrni .g..1. 'r. . 8 80 p~r " New York .....12 48i m....6 2 a . Kingvill........ ............ 4 55 p) 1 Fat Vonic. No.11 *Oranolnge-------............5 89 m i Southbound. No. Si o . 87 Daily 'Brummerille...........'..'..1 in m laaliy. D~atly. r. Charleston -1 I .......817 p 6 - .N.Y. P. R R 12 1flFT 4 80p all bally "TTOS a Philnadlphia. 8 50 a 8 6 5P....... ..... o. I No.l TTON. N No "ltimore.... 0 22 a 9020 p ....... ..... lOp 1a".$ Bumner yule... . Rpi ______ n _.. __p_.._.... 'S n .6a'.'"OBranehvl'... UL8p88a[. Danville... 0 02j p6560 a 0 10 a .., 2u 1015~a"..Kingvila..... " 488p 70aUrok__..__s ... IBa11 40a " .... Cohixmbia... " 8 980p Ar. Greensboro........ 16 a ........... 07a'122 "..Alston..Lv lO8 850a- - 0da 128p " ....nntuo.." l11 7401) Lv. Gree.nsboro. 7 24 p 7 05 a 7117 a ... 20a 2~2 " .....Unio....."105p 780p Ar. Chlariot to .... 10 00o p 9 25 a 1205m ... 80a22 "....fnevile.. "12 25p0 53p l . Gastonia.10 49) 1110 07 a112 p ... 54a 27 " .. .Pacolot. ..12 1 p 84. " isM... ............ 18 p .......LO 25a 810 Ar.. partanburg...L, 11 46a1p-Baksug. 18 p 10 5a6 0p.... 40a 84i~ Lr.. Spartanburg.. .Ar 11 28a I0p"GthCnys.11 4 05 a 224 p ... 40p Ar...sheill....LY820 80p *Spatanurg122 all 34 a 815 p "P,"p. m "A, a. n- "C ern1i1l .... 1 26 a 12 00 400 Pullman alace sleoping ears on Trains 85 and " Seneca .8.. a p$ 0 p 5$ 1,87 and 8, on A. andO. division. Dining card Wst minter. C00p Sn i those trainis aervo all meals enroute. * Toccoan... aj b ib 00 p06 Trains leavo Spartanburg, A. & 0. division, " Mtf . A iry ........... .... ... 7 12 p680 S 16 p. mn. 11:84 a. mn., (Vestibule ~imnited.) (4Gainesville... 4 80 a 8 817 p 8 28 p72siuoLuieI;sutmon11:0a n.*Ll.....20 a81a 8pO0~tbun l4 .a. :8 .t. :8p n,*Crola.....8 0 IpQS arthbolud,5:50 a. mn., 2:84 p m.and 5:2~2p. mn., * Noroross ...5 26 0915 p8 91 a testibuied Limitod). southbound 1:26 a. mn.. Ar. Atlanta,1Il.'i'. 0 10 alt 4 'sp 10 00 p 980 a 80 p. in., 12:80 >. m. (V'estibuled Lmited). Ar. Atlanta, o.'T. 5 10 a 8665 p DO00p 880 a TrpInEs 0a 10 oncarrumblegant Pella "A" a.m."P" p. in. "M" nooWn. Migh. aepute early boiwoon Jobacndhvilleini Clhoaa Lie .Stemnoirs in daily sorvios 1rou. dal ewe akomil n on betweon Norfolk and Blafttore. Trains 18 and 14 carry superb Pullman parlor Nos. 1ri and 88-D)aily. Wasington and South bre betweon Oharloston and Asheville western Vestibulei Limitod. Through Pullmnan RANK . GANNON J. Md. OTmL oeping ears betweon Now York and New Or Th.irdV-P.&G. M't rfl' - s, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgoum aigton . SiWashinron 94 ery, and also botweeni New York and Memnhii !Asl nT R K 1L.'0' W a h-t n v.0 ya' ashi tonala ta a d B rm i A TTIK IHA lo anOK P1LMAN LItARY 011 VA ..ss gt 'tGen. aT. ION CAllS botweoen Atlanta rand ew York. aghnge 0 414 4 l' retelass thorourghfare coaches het ween Wash ng ton and Atflania. Dining cars serve all meal9 e'~ A5 's ~ n route. Pullmrndrawin g-roomx sit1 >ng oars 2 .....-?~ ' b\etween Groenaboro and Norfolk. loon g J %neotion at Norfolkt for OLD POINT RT~v.n.i amE Nos. 185 and li--United states Vast Mail --- E N ruins solid betweeyn Waab'ington and N OQr leans, via Southern Rtailw..,y, A. & WV. P.iI. andl L. & N. R. R. beinig comnposed of baggage oar and coaohes, t'hrough without change for - g sen ge of alle cassoa. Pullman drawing - ~im sleeping oars bet ween New York and R A ..L_..PA INS JI Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery and f.a' lunan Drawing Roeom Buffet 8leping Oars tweon Atlanta and Asheville, N.0. Leaving --anhington eohe Tuesday and y, a iet sleigcar will run through tween nt by propaid ox pross on receipt of 85e yahington and Ban Flrnoiseo without1 xange. A[, IG A TOiR L i N I M iINT CO. c)~n ars serve all nmeais enroute. Charlesteon, i. C. Zs.11 88 84 anad 12--Pullman sleeping earl betweon Aeiolimond and Charlotte. via Danville, 8outhbound Nos. 1 and 83, nerflhbound Nei. OSB R N ES Heand 18 ,Ag', 4 en P-ss