OTHE PEOPLE'SJOURNA
OL PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10:. LY
BIIL ARP AND HIS CHILDRIS:
He Has a Good Time Watehin
the Grandchildren Play Wit
Their Toys.
ThiIt Christmas is like "longtheie
sweetness long drawn out" at or
house, for the boys have gathere
from the four corners aind brough
their love and their rations with then,
Now York brought a huge box of de
corations for the Christmas tree. .
was beautiful beyond description
Dolls of silk and satin and paper, a
covered with glittering spangles-littLi
angels with pearly wings suspended1 b,
threads of invisible rubber, golde
harpq and hearts and wreaths of SpIul
glass in rainbow colors-scores of littl
waxen candls to illuminate the scene
Oh, it was like a fairy vision, an
every limb and twig of the stately lont
leaf piuc was burdened with Christ
mas gifts for old and young. Ther
were twenty-four of the family present
and it took half the night to untie am
unfold the surpiises, for all were re
membored over and over again by oh
Santa, Yes, all, even to the venerabih
old patriarch--the "4Paterfamilias,'" th
antique ancestor, for he brought ie
ball and a monkey jack and som(
candy, because he had heard uitt
was the boy--the only boy-about tli
house. But later on I discovered
silk cap and a pair of slippers, somi
handkerchiefs and an inkstand tl':iI A
little giandiebldren can't, spill ti
out of if they do t urn it over.
Little Mary Lou, who is Jessie'
child, got so many (olls and pre'
things that she looked tired and, draw
mug a long breath, said: "Ganpa, it',
too much, and I can't hardly stand it.'
There were toys and books, and vase
and perfumes, and baskets and gloves
and jewels and other gifts too inuer
ous to mention. Mexico brought a
beautiful hand-woven Castilian shaw
for my wife, and she struts around a,
lithe and gay as Eden's garden bird
"My boy brought it fromt Mexico,'
she says, forty times a day. 4 Aly boy
and my children" are always on the til
of her tongue. Well, that's all right
They are her boys, sure enough, and
she knows It. There may be some
doubt, sometimes, about who is the
father of a child, but every body knows
who is its mother. Downstairs has all
heen clothed with mistletoe and holly.
Geraniums from the pit are placel al
around, and some beautiful rose lift
up their lovely forms from beautifu
vases that old Santa Claus brought.
Bunches of mistletoe hang from ever?
chandelier, and every time, these merry
mischievous girls linei me standing
under one, they slip up unawares and
elaim a kiss. EvenI Mrs. Arl, lost bet
normal dignity and, coming slyly be
hind me, suddenly wrapped tC drapery
of her Castilian shawl around me and
claimed a mistletoe kiss from my con
nubial lips.
But the old marble clock that for
niearly fifty years has stood upon th<
ii ie ticking the moments and re
cortag the hours as they pass did not
stop on Christmas night, and at mid
night the happy group retired to rest
and happy dicais. Next day camc
the feast-the Christmas dinner. Every
leaf wits placed on the lome extension
table. At eacl end was a large well,
browned, well-done turkey, and all thc
intermediate space crowded with luxti.
ries for the inner man and woman,
Eighteen of the family were thei wel.
come gtuests at the table, while six oh
the infantiles surrounded a smaller ont
nearby. I never asked a blessmig iit:
a more grateful heart, for Provideonce
has been kmnd, and since lust wve mel
no afihiction or calamity hits beflleri
us. Vorily, the lines have fallen to t
In pleasant places. Would that all out
kindred andi friends-yes, wouldi thai
every family in the land-the rich anc
the poor-coutti have a like happy an<
unclouded Christmas. As I suirves
the happy scone it is enough to lool
upon the serenity of the matenal an.
cestor as sheo gazes fonidly upon lbei
boys-yes, her boys, who have com<
so far to give hiet joy and comfort. Oht
ye boys -ye young meni andl middhll
agedl, whom fortune or fate has ire
moved far from a good old1 mothter'm
tender care andl solicitude, don't forgel
her yearnings and if yoti cannot, go t<
lien at least once a year, wrnite to htet
every month and comnfort hter witl
your loving letters. The patpers ar<
full of crimes of all descriptions, bu.
In my opinion, there is none that. wil
miore surely provoke the cuirse of G~o
than for a man to neglect otr (liet rc
his mother.
Yesterday the boys with their mnothi
er atnd sisters visited the old home
stead-the farm in the cotuny, wvhern
our children grcew up to manhtood am
womanthood--wherc those scattere<
boys worked and plowed and plante<
and reapedi where they had sown
where they labored hard by (lay amil
hun'ed coons anid 'possums by inight
where they wvent to the naboi ing mnil
and fished ini the p~ond while the gr is
was grinding; where Carl and Jessim
went to school andI crossed the creel
on a slender footlog, and gathered htawv
and maypops and wild strawblerie oi 0
the way. T1hese boys and their sister
wanted to revisit, the 01(1 scenes am
drink water from the same 0o(d gush
Ing spring. These boys wanttedl to se
the 01(1 meadlow where the big tree
stood in their majesty-the oak tree
that we had niamned for Roscoe Conh<
ling and Bhlaino, andl the big sycamor
that was namedl for Voorhtees, the tLi
sycamiore of the Wabash.
They wanted to see the old1 barn
yard where they used t~o tease old Pett
the Merino ram, and incite him to rea
on bie hind legs and run to butt thter
as they preu.ented1 their posterior. in
A tund provoking manner. Soim
niim. hay got, out of him way -inst
time, but ever and anon they <hdout
and he sent them on their winding wn)
scratching the ground on their allfours,
They wanted to see the grave of ol(
Bows, that good old (log whom they
loved. I did not go for there was im.
1 room, and as I am the boy, I had to
r stay at home and take care of .Tessie's
I children.
t Well they came back in due time
and it was amusing to me to hear them
tell how everything had change(I with
t In these dozen years; how the house
,seenied to have Batik into the grountd a
I foot or two and the farm had shrunk
Stip and the fields were smaller and the
, hills lower and the shade trees short
i cned at the top. I've been through all
i that before, and was not surprised. Ii
terspersed with our daily ant itightly
pleasures we have music, good music,
classical music of the great masters
and minstrel music with choruses from
all the band and even my wife, Mrs.
Ai p, was constrained to play the
" Caliph of Bagdad "1 with her first
I born daugh1ter-her daughter. Music
is our family's gift, for they all play on
something, and all have voices ior har
mony of sweet sounds. This gift, I
suppose, comes from their mother, and
her touch upon the ivory keys is still
as delicate as when she was a lassie of
sixteen. I used to think that I, too,
had a melodious voice, and soletimcs
would venture to hist the tutie in Sun
db ' chool wlen the tune hyster was
I- It 1i1 and, like the crow who tried to
t; .g, I thought I dd it finely. No.
oody else ever told in so, and one day
my wife said that my voice was a little
,jracked and if she was me she would
not try to raise the tunes in the church
any more. It was a re'elatioi that
shocked me, and I. have never sang in
church since, or anywhere else. There
are voices in chin cl choirs of the same
kind, but nobouy will tell them. They
are called falsetto.
Farewell Christmas-farewell old
Santa Claus-while we all rejoice, let
us not forget tlat Christmas comme
ilorates the birth of the Savior of mien
-the nativity of Kris Kringle, which
means ' tie little Christ child." It
is Ivell enough to rejoice, but we
should at. the same time ictlect and be
grateful. B 31.1. A n'.
THROWING OFF THIS MASK.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion and the Railroads.
N. Y. Financial (ironiele. Dec. 1, 1Poo.
In a decision rendered this week Ile
Intertate Commerce conimissioln has
thrown off all (sguisc and has revealed
the animus which is cont rolling its
course and action. The framers of the
interstate law intended that the com
mission shiould act in an impartial
manner, deciding cases before it
st rictly in accordance with their merits.
The board has from the first acted as
if it were the champion of the shippers,
and as if its chief Iunction consisted in
harassing and embarrassing the rail
roads and tiling against them when
occasion offered. But while tle Comn
mission could not conceal the bias it
felt, its itteratnces at least have hither,
to been couchled in Judicial and unob
jectionable language, thus preserving
a semblance of impartiality. This
week, however, it has finally thrown
precaution to the witids. The South
ern Railway company had asked for a
reheat mg in a case involvinig relative
rates to Lynchburg, D)anvilte, etc.,
which had been dlecidled against it in
the sprmiig. In its petition the com
pany claimed that to ohbey the decision
of tho commission woutld mvuolv'e a loss
to it of $433,000 per annum, and that
as no( div~idlend had beeii paid on thie
company's eo emon stock of $120,000,
000 (tuting 1899, to insist upon0 cutting
off that amount of revenue per year
would he) tantatmouint to dtepriving the
owners of tie stock of their property
withbout dtue pr~ocess of law. Thelu com-.
mission makes an attempt to dlisp~ute
the figures of loss given, and ttien goes
on to say that the stock was issued as
part of a reorganiza tion scheme und~er
whlich the comlpanty came into exist,
ence, that it, (does tnot appear that any
thing wvas ever paid( upon such stock,
and fi nally (apparentIy to clinch a
weak argument) ''that it (lees not rest
in the~ whim fl (a rieorganiizationi comn
mittee in Wall street to impose a tax
upon the whole Southern counitry."
The allusion heic t~o the "wuhiim of a
reorgantizatiotn coimmittee"' in "Wall
street" is not~ only irrelcyattandl in ex
ceedtingly had taste, violating every trule
of official propriety, hut in thes in
feretice which it seeks tbo convey is a
gross mis representationi of thie facts of
the case. There was no occasion for
lugging in (lie reorganizationi commit
tee at all, andt we' can conceive of no
reasBon for so do(inig, eixcept, ai desire oni
I thie part, of some of the muembers to
pose befcre the country as foes of the
railroad and( fianicial interests. The
reorganization committee was not, on
riau), and~ if (lie comimission (teemed
thme capittalizationi of the Southern rail
way excessive and1( wanted to maumitain
its position with reference to the rate
qjuestioni, a dlecorous statement to that
effect would have answem ed every pur
pose0 andu have shown that t he hoard
I still had somne regaird (or its otl'icial pto
sitioni. Inistead, the comumissioni seeks
ito cast aspersionis uponi a biody of meni
who in reorganizinig (lie old( itichmond
ai an West Point Teiminal compiainy andi(
- Its constituenit piroperties rendered as
important a plic( service as was ever
I rend~eredl uind~er similar- circumustainces
by a like body atnywhiere in the coun
try. As a maitier of fact, the reorgan
, tontomittee, insteadl of being pil
r horned, should he held up to public alp
proval and praise. They accomplished
s a task which seemned wellnigh hopeessm
- -a tasic which several previous com-i
a mnittees formed for the same nurnoaa
had been obliged to abandon becaus
of its onerous character.
The imputation that this conimitteo
which carried to success an undertak
ing whieh everyone else had abau
doned, sought by the reorganization 4t
impose a tax upon the whole Sout her
country" is absolutely without an'
loundation in truth, and has nothin1
whatever to sustain it. When thest
people took hold the properties consti
tutimg the present Southern railwa)
system were a physieal ias well as i
financial wreck. The service was bad
and the costly way In which it wa'
rendered forbade the possibility of
cheaponing the charge to thie public
The reorganizers provided the meanm
for rehabilitating the sy-stem, an(]
poured millions upon millions into it
for its improvement and (<evelopment,
Now at last the territory served by ihe
lines hap a railroad service worthy of
the name. So far from having im.
posed a tax upon any portion of thi
Southern country, we venture the as
sertion that the South today, as the
result of these efforts and expendi
tures, is being served better and
cheaper than at any previous period
in its history.
The statement that there is no evi
dence that anything was ever paid oi
the coimon stock of the Southern
railway is of the same baseless char
acter. The stock referred to was issued
in exchange for the stocks of the old
companies. Everybody in tle finan
cial and railroad world knows that the
terms were not liberal. Indeed, the
organization was a peculiar.y drastic
one. Leaving out, of account what may
have been originally paid oil the old
shares, the reoiganization managers
levied heavy assessmentt on these old
stocks, and also on sone classes of
honds, and the security-holders had to
pay these assessments in order to get
itny representation in the reorganized
company. Tie Richmond Terminal
shareholders had to pay S10 per share
and the East Tennes-ie, common stock
holders had to pay $7.20 per share;
aid besides3 had tfheir holhings reducet
10 per cent. So hard were these terms
considered that many of the security
owner.s sacrified their holdtigs rather
than accept them, and the reorganiza
tion syndicate had to step into tie gap.
If the interstate commerce comimlissoin
does not know all this it is inexcusab)ly
ignorant on a most importamt subject,
coming directly within its province.
And what bienefits have the security
hl-ders who came in under the reor
ganization scheme received thu1s far?
They have 1111d no dividends upon their
holdings of common stock, and today
six an(] a half years after the reorgani
zation , they find these shares quoted
in the market at the munificent figure
of 17. Whien,, therefore, the managers
of the company soulght to protect these
shareholders against, the action of the
interstate commerce commission inl
threatening a large reduction of tle
company's revenues, they were evi
dently doing only their duly. The
commissioln in denying the request for
a rehearing might at least have re
frained from injecting abuse into the
refusal.
SI_;lGvrTON FOll 1900.
Nearly half a million people from
other parts of the world have coi in
to tie United States during the year
10010, seeking piermianient homes. The
dhetails of the imig'ration (during the
tetn months ending with October,
gathered by the imigrat ion IBureau,
atnd puihIed by the Bureau of Statis
tics, indicate that the immigration for
the calendar year will reach about11
400t,000. (Of this nuimber, more than
100,0t00 'camie fromu Austrma-Uungary,
ani..ier 100,000 from Italy, andh nearly
aniothier 100,000 fromi Russia; while
the U nited K ingdlom furnishes more
t han 5,0,000O, of w hiich numbiler 40,000
are from Irehmnd. O f thle 4160,000 imn
migrants, fully 450),00t0 come fr om
Europe, il te but about 4,0001 or less
tan I per cenit. come fr om the tropies.
The indisposition of mani in his
migrations to s el a colder counitr
than that to which he has been ac.
cuistomied is dlistincetly perceptiblde ir
the hiistoty of our imnugI~rationi. Ini all
the years in which dletailed recordhs of
the counitry of origin of the millions 01
imnugranits wvho have conie into t h
Umnted States have been carefulla
kept, the tropics have seildoml sent at
average of more than I per cent. 0:
the people seeking permaiient homei
in the Unitedi :-tates. This tact is es
pecial ly emphasizedh, however, by th<(
record1 of the year just enided, sinice it
otfers the first, opphortunity to observ<
whether or not the citizens of the is
lands now controlledl by the Uniite
States iniciate a dlispositioni to trans
for their residence to this country.
The fact that (lurimg that year the
immitigration from Oceania, Iudia
Arabia, Africa, South Amierica, (Jen
tral America, tand thie West Indies
comibiniel-the enitWir trop)ical territora
(ot thle world--amiountts to less thiat 4,
000 people, or less thani 1 per cent. o.
the total immtigration, in'licates the unt
willingniess of the average citizen C)
tropical lands to tranisfer his residenict
to even so mild a climate as that whieh
the Soultheni part of the U nitedl State:
offers. The futlher fact thait during~
the year 1900 the total inumhcr of imn
migrants conming from the Ilawaitat
and Philippitne Islanids into the IUnite<
States was less thani 250 indicates stil
furthet the unipopularity of a clinmat<
suich as our own, even whieni joinel
with the material proispieity such a
exists ini no( other parit of the world
wvith natives of the tropics.
Governor McSweeney has ordere,
an ehection for a successor to Nherif
Kennedy, of Abbeville, who was kille.
last week.
D ONE, HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Sone Advantages Which A Modert
Man Has Over ilis Predecessor
One hundred years age' a man Co1l(
not. take a ride on ia steamboat.
lie could not go from Washingtoni t(
New York iII a few hiours.
le had never heard of a P1ulhnani
palie car porter.
Ile had iever seen an electric light
or (Ireamed of an electric ear.
Ile coulI niot make a cake of ice a-9
big as a lump of ougar.
Ile could not cool hiuself under an
electric fail or warm himself at a steai
radiator.
Ile could not send a telegram.
ie couldn't talk through the tele
phono, an( lie had never heard of tile
hello girl.
Ie had never seen a shirt waist or a
rainy day skirt.
Ile could not ride a bicycle.
lie could not call in a stenographer
and dictate a letter.
lie had never received a type writtet
commllullication.
No matter how grave a crime le
committed, lie never could be electro
cuted for it.
Ire had never lieard of the germ
theory or worried over hacilli and
bacteria.
Ile never looked pleasatit before a
pliotograplier or had his picture taken.
le wouldn't have known a complex
lens from a gin tickey.
He had niever heard of Neptune iId
Ceres.
Ile couldni't, measure the (list alie be
tween the stars.
Ile knew nothing of the chemical
composition of the stars.
ie had heard of oxygen, but wouhl
not hiave understood an allusion to
li(uiid air.
le had l2ever heard of the molecular
constitution of matier, or tle conse'rv
ation of energy, and di(d not know
that lie was descended from a monkey.
lie could not predict a rain or an
nounce the (o1ig1 of' a cold wave or
it cyclone.
Ile was aware that there was such
a thing as electricity, but looed upon
it as a germ.
Ile never heard a plionograph talk or
saw a kiietoscope turn out a prize
tight.
Ile never saw through a Webster's
Unridi(lge(l Dictionary with the ai( of
a Roentgen rav.
Ile had inever taken a rile hi an elt
vator.
lIe had never imagined such a thing
is a typesettitig mac('hnio 01 a type
writer.
Ile had iiever used anything but a
wooden 1)0w.
He had never seen his wife using a
sewing niachine.
le had never struck a iminteli on his
pants or on anrythinig else.
ie hiail never ulinirg u1p against a gas
post.
lie had never seen a scarcihglit or
drunik a cocktail.
Ile cotl(i't take an anaesthetic ind
lave Iis leg cut off without feeling it.
Ile kiew niothiing of geology because
geology knew nothing of itself.
Ile had never visited a free library.
Ile had never purchliased ia ten cent
lagirzinre which would have been re
gar(le(l as a miracle of art.
nie could not buy a paper for a nickel
and leairn everythmng that hadl hap
pened the (lay bef ore all over the worhil.
Ie hand never seen a AleCor'mack
r'eaper or a self binding harrver'teir.
lie had never crossed an ir'on bridge
0or traveled ini a public omunibus.
ie had never sanledl thiroungh the
buez'7 canal.
lie had never used a decadly explosive
or triedl smokeless powd~er.
In short there were several things
that lie could not (10 and( sever'al things
he (lid not know.-Memphist Crou
cml-AI penl.
Foux)ix:s or WEvA r 'i -Farrmeirs
know~ full we'll that they aire the found
ationi foir much of the prosperity of thle
e ounitry. Careful finnieirs nrever'
ma~ke a p):-edication wtithouit a1cquainting~.
threniselvtes thlorouighhy with the out
look for' the farm. An increase in
cr'ops calls at, once for' wlditions to thle
rolling stock of railroads, arnd this de
rmaind, bringing iron rand steel ramnu
faictures, ininrg opertionis ad rillied
or dlepend~eri, indultstr'ies into fr'eer ae
tion, gives employment to hnuindreds of
t housarida of meni Whol mu st look t c
the farmis for food1, and who spend
otheri por'trons of thneir earnings ini
ways which per'mit id ustr'ies of widhe
extent arid gr'eat var'iet y. Nart ional
pro~sper'ity, originaitirng ini the farrms, i.
made possible by tire expaning use of
agricultural miachniners, and thiourth the
farmris mnay not aulways f eel immnedh
ately the furll ffets of good times.
they share them nlt im-nit ely.-.Swuther'n
It may be strated as arn irndispurtsble
truth that, no manti ever' succeedeld nat
farinrg who was arshamrred of hirs crops
says the Southeurn Farim Moria .ine. A
main whose farm is so) poor or whnost
tiliage is so bad t hant his crops art
worthrless had b~etter' abandon fius call
mganet a~t somiethiing ('lse. If hi'
land rs poor lie sholdh~ cimiichi it. If hn(
neglects t o work his cr'ops well he isr
fai ltreo alr'eadly. Tlhe're is an int enrsi
pleasure to the imtelligent farmer to s(
dlirecct the oper'at Iions on his farmr as I
produltce crops of' which he will bii
pr'oudl. lIe thlen rejoices in hnis
vocation. ila ii ind is ever On t in
aler't for iiew improvceents eithner fo
H orthiizin g his soil or for cultivating hr
t The aggregate losses by fire in th
I, city of Coul'ambia fer the past yea
were *58,87a
OUR FUrURE DEVELOPMEN'
The South to Raise Fift-en Millio
Bales of Cotton and Manufactur
Five Million Bales ii 1910.
'rogroless ma111de by the Soul in cot
Lon manufacturing during the vast tei
yearis is likely to be duplicalted durin;
the Iext tell years if certilill coniditiol
ire met. The outlook in this directiol
is disciussed tiat length ill last week'
issle of the Maiufacttirers' Itecord b'
Dr. (Charii'les V. Dabley, forlmerly a1'
sistait 6ecretary of AgicultIire, Ion
presidetit of the ivuersity of Teies.
fee, a11ni recognize1 as all ath ority ill
lllatters affectinhg fite inilustlrilil an11d
agricultural advlance of the South. In
his. paper hle conltends1 thlat un1due
weightl shiould nlot he givenl nakturall re
Sources, but that . tie eop1le who Wil must
convert then into wealth niust also ht
coniidered. Amoig the itural r.
sources lie reckois tle soil mit chinalc
of tie 8ut1h, the best ill tle world for
the growiig of cot toil ; its wal er-power
from rivers ruiniig est ward, south
ward andl( wYestwilrd from1 thle Appala111
clinan Mioun tains to be Iu st-I directly
or hirouglhi eleeltic tranmissioii; abun
dant coal from 417,000 plire ul1es of
workable fielis, of which less thani a
tlousaid tjtlare iles h n eo been dl..
veloped up to the preseiii tme, antd an
equtable climate, in which are the dc
desired colitionS for (hi imiost relined
kinds of Cottoll 11ufu11:n1g. lIe
Ln1111dS that to these lnat ual Iresoulces
lust he added ti an intelIligelit :uit rea
sonablily chealp labor, large ly mIale till
of young" people, and oil tha pointl hie
says:
It is well known that the while
people of tle Piedimont sectio ll of ie
South form all excellent lullacitri ill.
popujlat ionl. Th'ey come froml anIl in
telligent antd kirlly race, who learn
rapidly to be skillful mtchatiies. With
proper training they Inake as <xpert
Itllians as can be found allywhere.
Ther,1i111 es; opportu1mty for' unliis
am 1onl this doliestic popultioll; tihese
mills are eiwie largely by local )eopk
and mmlitied co-operat ion promiss itI
keep out the v'icious walkiig delegaut
aii ill his kinld. The negro as 1ne
beel much t-td in tile iiil so fair, hiL
111re 11 little doubt bull that he will b.
emplo3 ed ill particular mills or in Ilosi
lines of m1lantitacturillg whichel reu(lice
ehoape' lahir, with less ability to tbink
'Tlie iegro is by niture nill illita iv<
eI eat ireT a1l rap idly learI'nsx anyll poce Iti
tiat is sln%' I m 1. IlIe is thus wvl
a apted to 11l thoise..' forilms of manufaec
ture that < IOt lu reiuirl. origlal.y ol
ftourethouaghlt.
''le only thmii1'g that11, w' ieed ill th
South for un almit i;i1ilitme eaan
monl of, cottlen nollillucit illg, is 114i01n
calpitlal and mlitore echilical e.xperts
hoti in the busitwaiss and it (lie maiu
tacIuri:ig <el'riiinuts. The ca ii I
will be fortlicoming, as it always is, as
soo as i the men ai e found to take 'art
of it aid ise it. The Soulleli peophl
are -tetting richier evei y yea-:r, and will
undoutdliy.inv'est their spare meials in)
cottol millt as fLast as it a-eumuiiilah's.
T1he great need if tihe Souhli to-day is
mlenl t) org'ar.ize and11 conduct thle busii
11e.s of .1adetu trin, iu especially
men who know how to build n111d per
ate the cot toill 1ls tiem 'elves. TII
1ovelelint f tec ical educat ion, anif
especially tha t for textile schools, is
going1. to sup ly the lise ex perts at an I
early3 time11. O )urI 0 cnc~luin then01, b5
that th onl )11y thlin gs we nIeetd in 01rdei
ti oper'iate0Ii~ ininy miore cotio nu i s ii:
the ~South I islt'E m or l eucatlion for th'Le
miassos of tile ieole, frion wheom iht
labor'er wXI'ill be drauwn1, an more11)1 tech
ical tralinling for' the youngi~ men wh<t
Idre to buliti anid operate the mills. Al
these tlan igs are sure I' ly l coming, am~
they all betoken ihe prodligitous detvelopl
the nOx t teln years'.
more0 t hani ~ )01 ell en. of' all thte co)1o0
co0l~ nsu iln thlei woridalit inl1manufac
tui'e about 7 1per ('ent. of it, whIle till
Northeirn Slates Iimnulaetur'e abutlit. 1.
per1 cent. WVith Cilmu aiid A firiea both
(opened~ Lt) 0our trmie, wviith te canll en
1betweeni thle At Ian tic and1 l'aci fic, I lirt
phesOy that ml teii year lth le Stilltheri
(ftate's wilmilo ave( treie t he numbe oilLt
thet co(ttonl of the workI, wh ich Ii
thit. tillot will he at least 20,0J00,001l
hales. The So11 hi Ii:1ufact ured abonu
I ,500)I,(i00u bales h;i't yeari; this melansx
aliliwing foir imlproveineInt iln iniini~
ory, that slit muilst prepareii lto anumfacI'i
turle 5,000,00tt0 bales, ha11lfi h jriprel
crop~i, by I1910, whfen shle will be pro
ali g'rowinig at least 15,tJ00,000)
Wheni we' coniderO her1 1put progres:
alii her miagniifiu'ent reources'0 ill con1
lied tion with the ii opein:iig liiup Lfit
E'ast, and the genIeral utlvaiinemn
of1 eivi liz utilol, we cannii Ot Oxpect an
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llev . A. Toomer1' Porler, 1). 1).,t i.'
founder01 and1( unt1l no0w the pr11Inial <
ilie ce lebrat ed mi)il i tay academy I
Chiailehstoni wVI ihichbaris hiis nameli', h
trot ot t hat inistitti Onl. Dr1. Porter,
addition li binig old( and1( in bail heaft
is los ig his ('yesighlt, and thiese a
the reasons for his action. TI
aIcademfly palsses inito the hands of tI
Ep~jiscopal church of Stuth Caro~hlna.
D r. II. ilaer, of' (harlIeston, died l
the 2nd inist. lie wa',s eixly'sov,
years old and)1 one d' thle leaidin~g m)1
in the Methodist church0 i in thliis Stal
rle was at lebre'w by birtih and a blig
a ly eduicated man. He was possesset
gr'eat force anid st rength 01 ch~aract
and( was a power' in the church and
a secular affairs. lie was a wholesi
r andi rtetail druggist, and had met w~
mar'ked suneoe in hoainna,
r THE CFNTURY IN COTTON.
u The Outlook for Our Chief Staple
e Is One of Great Pronise.
One of the strikin developmenits of
ie South halt,; beeni inl t-he increaied
. prodiction and 1n1u33ifatcture of cotton.
At thls, centiry mile-stoine we are tatk
ing backward gahnce at the progress
we have made, and to the South gel
era lly aiythinig relative to cottoni is In
Ie esting. Iln the New Year's isstie of
t1e o4 ew York Worlk( appears the fol
lowinig:
'(o thu Editor The World:
The close of Ili presen. century
sIlggests a brief review of the cottonl
inidustrty of this couitr.,y, the reimrk
i)l( gowh of which--from a Cejroy of
about, (),(t0 hales in the yeiir 1 790
will he shown by i ,laice at tle fol
'aowingi figuriies:
Too l produmitction- Mls
IS833 18 '1 ...........2 0
1821182 ....................
183.1 181 . 00 t
185..... ................... 2 5,1o0
186 --1( 61.................... :34.(100
1870) l~'l .....................I 350M00
188 1 -1881 .................... 6 (1 0
1811-18,1 5.. 2 (100
18N 114910 ................... it 27 .01(3
1899 9 0.................... 120,00
Tbe inc1c2t'(3 e ill lit-odui3t 3331 j3 istill
11101.1. 1IVI311-k1iC3htv it' %'.e vo0333tid'r that
lit 1 0) ilie % u. ' . li 25 I.
it Iout. 22.5 ill1 . . . 1,5,20 it
1131(1 il(3'C313321 1to 26'0t j41i3imf, 18S3 II1) 0
:3(; s)li t elidilv)11 ilvreiic'ii j(114 1 1 1 Vi
iveii.~l~, 113or t(3 1 i tiio' i33''431e It it ii3tu'
11. . ..eeti .eli0ed
The oinr piodcing proction is 1t l
114 to$l3 tiarkale f w e Wit de the Ill"
11. eiiwe v'iew Nv it h eq u'l it i) (31
i 1l8i e hee wije1it e' ile
ws aiiouitg i pl-tIdy. iy .150 the
(lilal1ltI (* or .oltolt ('03511ii'(- I i tt (i3.
Ni~lt I c's3 es 111.1t1 30o,,('1 I):lecs, m3
ha7 it iea icn';3.4 to 1 100pu0110 tI, I
35t1 1 pond11 i, r3m;-,)03) hichIe rh.
w ih ha viteidi 1i ea very iual the,
ly tile aer1a1 et 11w reoelit itdustnal
(311 tf supply the orSld11 it.
matera4)l, we24 vie ith equal11:3 itereist
andTriethe ra pid(-, ie) o11fk o
sPinning11 . id -ty I n t( 0185 t he. to
aItlityl of co(itImon is o c'n -1t1 it is ill
117it h, intr14) 1,1 t! o 1,0 0 00 als.
a lat y a e11 o kin 14o 1thce m1 34111
a11 mint.d to . ,' ) a
WI~L..AAM V. iItNO , 3
T' ext ia I i i r r y
The re sl1 f th re t 14 Ilidt rial
is illeI /3 34 11' U43313144t I
ith N ni ng of the ()r33i3 ti nx3 r:ket i his
p1-11111ts a new avns it of' all wa
1 illt 3)3 1343 ' ! iV t~ 13 1'(4 11 l H~. Iv t 114 1'
w3bli hou 1O Wongoolsi:Ill intas n lcw
e i tl, the ontlook for theul cotton
will 1hk its c( uyl til ln f eli
or! 3I3A3'1331 'lt Wt .. 11 l. e. 'I'le lilding
(If' thek N3 11 311 (:3 will It1(. all.,t41114I'
Supert'3 i t 11 ilh tile Y rkl(C)j~l333lII ol ti
he io is. It i I H1( 1ha tro e f )tIh e Or
lhe Not-Il, ork t 'tnd Nl'',chawe in he
(lhe o itl tin, h it i n t s1'I'hineg a1t
for pr'olikibpeI I illtvselli3 3 tfie w ill mt ll1
hie *-f il t whlit - cnostr. I t he n w
'entur Sou hward the34 ilr llof Irogres
'1t431'(3 is ;1lll4I~3Iit 3) 1 33(II 3lvr 14)3 I33(1k I
iopla take4 :it co Is andI , r111d 1 i 11l
ofthe Nci aron o 1nal ill bt' n that orI
ren fato 's4 it ;the devegelomult~l cti
13 , I . I 1 1 s 11 r.1 v tl that es ep1111 of I
thle NrhI ast and N ie have
(lie fotnah e, hntin 1;4erbg: about1
fo prof35 itale investinen3131t they3 will( 1311'
popurliot ul api(33' 11l1, aan3l thereis nfol
l('s so i l al i \~ f Rdviultages 1113 f3('i:e g a' nt 3
MajI. .lhn W Thomas,'I pre'siden4t3 of 1
the31 Nashvil33. lCha33tt. oa an t
foitI3ight u3sine 3 man, has13531 truthfully
conspllir ing factor (m,3 13 the"tur growth 14
of 1.t1h Ihectin .13 ltl of th( ite States.
"' t. The( 13alm 0ity3 of1VaiI thesol' thle
-Soth 1.13t fedI ie (4 imes.I01 :t he popula
11( 2.13 The433 h i i ar4a3o i tls coal31 i ll
811inbfrests4,. 0sqar ilst'i
have(3'II~ st1uun ( Iof wokale 1thic3kness3.ma
"'x1 3.33 oT laie rI ~e I tityl of1 l ron 11.1 re331
S443) Thle alllItyy easo oflt the111
cheapness1t.3( of 10a13 ad i ron1131 ores, to1( 31
make1 theap irone wie 1s no the1(
Wstatulrd bas33 ittis a l ter of1 11iviliza-1(
133' l3 11333113 f3.3U)tie141 u
"V 1. Thtt~e341 nati adateore331 the(033
"~ 151. Tilag (3x33t1ent3 of forts a0t31al
e 1ithousae (in of 1 indutres t1131hat3 will.3
naturally spring1133 from3 the3' presence of
11a3 31 3 1( 141(s 3he1Railway lievie . The tralin3
.C consis-d of42:( four33 Pullman b ar and32( an1h424
11" A Whi(lantic " lye 31ngine.313 o'h train3)31
31 r 1131.3 attemp to3 make3 1134 33314 lot time.
ac 3(t ly 133bree minutles 1am33 for)t3v-one ) ( ee-1
I i nts3'.f Fo 11 he lIast,3)1 00 feetC' 2f0tha
3s d33tanc tel e b44314$ Il 1ke wer1e. appie, s13ow
ing dowen for~314 a tIn 81nler1 hood.2 The2IISL
ir4 t four13333 andl~ hree-tuarter mt ile by
run tinl. threed minutes5 and3 I tiht seconds.
ho!'huthem31. Tettldsac a
coeeda N eaeo ihy.h
Al ~ No
v -. crop
:7' \ can be
grown
- without
Potash.
Supply
Pot
prolits will b(
arg; without
S o t a sh your
Cr) xvill be
S.ltl ) )\',
\1.. \ A 1. i w i) " J3
't -w\ ' rk.
STATIC NEWS AND NOTES.
wathered From Our IExchangea
and Other Sources.
Tl It( \ Cu111 ry wvas uishered In in
hrleton bY ihe pealing of the chimes
I ol St. MIichiael'i
l'rof Jon L. 1resily has been lite
relectied to 1i.1 the chair of (reek and
tvimau at I.rSkinle ('ollege.
(iiifiney ani. Laurens are preparlig
0 aive the residence, bui1ness hiouses
1iii vaa.11 11, hIs iitobered.
I .tiutenanliit Gove rnIor Scarborough
uIs oriired an elvection for at successor
> t or Mili in, of ILimpton.
A r'%ward of -4-20v has been offered
y Govrnior Mc~weeneiy for the arrest
1, the lKingstree di)ensiary robbeis.
Thit liquor stles il Lairens for two
ays dting ti Christmas holidays
ient over $2,000, while thatit a.\bue
Hile wts about $2,Ou.
Conway Iceently hid the I irgest fire
li hier listor3. Two tre3s, a re
uence aid 3everal smaller buildings
rere burneid. The cause of the fire is
i-t linikioiwn.
Flom tile time tle privilege tax
im Itil-Lilizcts was inii.rateti tils tax
l11 1 iedctt I tie Stat e T ,'.106 IS. The
aeI aotrmt re ceived aduring thle
Tile Newsn and Coturi.et ha,, published
le dititih heit of I lit whites inl Cliarb s
)n for teilt year n1o0. Thiiere was 316
shitc p abotite the mge of :1 who
la VV ditd there the L. pa-t 3 talr, most, of
lieml at Anl :Idvanlced ne
The total nmbel' Of inquCests helId
luring tie year just Closed by the
'oroeri ~ of C at tilaCiounty Was 85,
hvided ats follows: Muiders, 26;
Irmvmitigi, l158; ai restilts of railroad
ebidlns, etc., 15; burning, 4; mis
1l11ouls, 8; smuitite, 3; accidental
h oiniiil, ; e Xloion by 1 n1111), 1;
util1iibe 1omicides, 4.
Col. Lmis Du lhois, an old and dis
ltiiild citizenl of Chat (ied
m1 th1 1 St tilt. Colonlve Du Blois, who
vaii SGli )vars old, had hee-i in faling
ilihh for some Lime. Ite was born
Liiil edciilatc- I ini lranoce, but mi 1800
:ainec lo this8 counitry to live. lie wats
3 elose f rienid of G~en. Rt. E. Leo andit
Ic b ani itn pilrtalt positWi) oll il-cted
Vit th Ile (.iicllfedrate gtvernllunt.
A hLlDtAliKAliLB MACIllNE.
A phonol~tgraph~ that shoults so loudly
hiat every wtord can1 be1 hieard at dis
ance oif tenI nuiehas beenl~ci tested al
IIliIhton, Eland'tit. You enni whlispetr
I senitenc: into thet Irnaebine's smii
repealt, i inl toe i thatl at11 Ie molre decafen
ig than11 th sh 81rieks of ai liner's steam
-aren. Yet e~very wtord( is perfectly
Irticubiit et, and Ia shith iandt writer ten
mhe is away can take down the mnes
sages ats ealsily as if y ou were dictating
iThie ma~ebine i is the in venltion of Mr.
lloraec L. Short, of BIrighton. In apj
pearanlce it is merely anl (ot dhinry
ph;>noligraphii, with a large ti umpijet,
mieasing i 1. tourl feet in lengtht. Inside
fthis11 trumpet tihere is It small aind de
lien~te p.Ite of iniechaiinim thiat looks
somei~tthing like ai whiistle. This is the
I itgu of tihe malcin~e.
Inisita of the recoinds being taken
onl waX Ii te usu0:d manneiir, a sap-h
ph ir iceiede is made1( t., cuIt ihei. (d05ts
It-preISeniitin~g thi sound11( Vi bratitons oni i
a lveri eyh1nderc, and1( when the iieedhle
traivel. oiver the meital a) secondi Liml
thle vibrations13 cautse the wfIitle top
miahel thus ji11 becomesIi a8 ilking sirti
whliichI transform th1181le lhuman11 voice ir
aL deafeneing'- riiar.
Thec expeirimenlts were made u&
ibc th vit's ()) k, Bi ghtoun, where U.
in ventOr has woriksliops. The 1i1,
833 ltrmet was p1tle on1 the roof of thew
inhoriatoriiy, and3( wats made to repeat a
unobertlit of senItenitces. At a dtiitan4ce
of111 3en miles thet soundit wats plainly
heardii by a large number ot people,
every wordt beinug erf'ectly dlistiet,
and11 at a second trial, with a favorable
wind, it was foulnd thiaL an unkiowni
messai~ge couthld be tauken down mn short
i intd itt ia distaince of tw~dy iiiules.
Over the water the souds'will ear
iry still fartmer, tand iuin;r favorable
(lii cumsitanlcesl they igh~(t easily be
heard by peirsons on a vessel fifleen
umites ou1t at sea. Placed~( onl a light
wouiild give a verba! wariiing thait would
be wt'lilitely ilioro eltecuv'i than1 the
toghtins1 paid detonatura at present in
use.~~.Lathn 'TelegraLph.