ESTABLISHED 1865. -ENRMYruF,sD-AY, D ECEMBERI 20, 18.y UUL, BYAN STILL SILVER'S CHAMPION, HAYS IT IS TO lIE TIE MAIN ISSUE IN NEXT ELEoTION. No Imperilisn for Demnoerats-11o In In New York and Talks Intoresingly of the Outlook for the Coning conflict. New York, December 17.--The World will tomorrow publish the fol lowing: William J. Bryan is in town. He was found last night, (Sat urday) at the Bartholdi hotel. Col. Bryan declaros himseulf an uncom promising opponent of the McKinley policy of expansion. He said: "It is too early at this time to dis cuss party politics for the presidon tial election of 1000, but I think the issue will then be free silver, anti expansion, anti -imperialism and the rights of labor. "I have already expressed myself igainst imperialism and territo rial expansion. The proposal to adopt the colonial idea of European nations is fraught with the greatest dangor. "What will be the fate of the treaty in the sonato I do not care to predict. While I was in Washing ton I sought all the inforn-ttion I could get. I cannot say that I learned sufficient to warraitt me in oxpressing a positive opinion. "Do I think free silver will be the issuo in 1900? Certainl). It will be the main question. How tihout, the labor problem ? I am not prepared to answer that question." WOOL FROM PINE TRIES. A Novel Industry to Ho Attempt4 41 Out'ini Oregon. Most men would as soon think of gathering figs off thi-itles as wool off pino trees, yet that is just what the promoters of a new Oregon industry propc 4e to do, says the Satin Francisco E :aminer. D. A. Cords is establishint- a plant at Grant's Pass for the man ifacture of pine needles into a fal,ric very like woolen cloth. There is nothing t now in this industry. It has boon 1 carried on in Europe for y, ars, but never before has it occu rred anyone that in the forests of Oro- t gon is better material and more of it for the manufactnre of pino wool I than any place else in the world. I Mr. and Mrs. Cords are onthusi asts, but are practical-minded withal, and do not propose to start in on too I large a stale. They intend first, to make material of the consistency of I excelsion for mattrAsses; after that they will manufacture the wool which I is used for under clothing, bandages < and other purposes where a soft and C pliable fabric is required. Only the ir.ner fabric of the needles can he F used for the latter, end the process is ernensive, b)ut not more so than I that of the manufacture of lambs' t wool. 1 Mrs. Cords is familiar with the I process of manufacturing fabricsi from pine needles in Germany and i France, and in a visit to Oregon t something more than a year ago it i occurred to her that tile pine trees c here were better suited to the pur- e pose of manufacture than those of the continent. A little investigation c .convinced her that it would be worth r' while to try the experiment, and I with the assistance of her husband 5 she started a small factory at Grant's s Pas. Machinery of the proper kind t wvas not to be had, and it was necos eary to senid to Europe for it. SECOND (lETs IT14 ORIEIIs. Our Iloyz WilliLeivo savannahal For Cuiba on Thursday.] (Special to Greenville News.) Savannah, Ga. Dec. 15.-The 2nd South Carolina regiment is to sail on the Mobile for Cuba next Thursday. , Colonel Jones, -with a lieutenanit and lifty men, will go to the city to morrow for nine: hundred and fifty cots and the new tents that are to be a carried with us. Explicit orders relative to loading, e assignment of quarters,,. baggage. I etc., were received today. This is the first regiment in our e brigade to leave. M'KINLEV'S RICOAD 813'ICCII. Paii a Tr.,buto at. Atiatatm, to $he Cm,niee rate Deng$ W10h0%h Mde Ilis hearers YrI mud Wee*p for Joy. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 14.-Presiden McKinley made memorable the firs day of the Atlanta peace jubileo bi a notable utterance in the speech be foro the joint session of the Georgii legislature thim afternoon. His ro. coption by the general assembly wam warm and hoarty in th extreme and his speech was punctuated with fro. quent ontbursts of chooring. It ii admitted on all sides that the ad. dress marked an opoch in history and is tonight on every lip. Upon the Prosident's arrival at. the capitol be wias greeted with a field artillery salute and was at once cortd to Governor Candlor's oflico. Tbore a short mformal reception took place. Upon its conclusion the president was conducted to the assembly chamber, where he occupied the speakor's chair with Governor Cand lor ou his right. When President Dodson, of the sonate, called the leg islature to order the galleries were thronged- with men and women. The body of the chamber was well filled with Stato sonators and as somblynon, while tho uiiforms of various olicors and tho governor's tafT gave a touch of brilliant color to the gathering. On the first row facing the speaker sit Secretaries Gagh, Log, Wilson and Smith and Secret.ary Porter. Besido the speak Mr's desk sat. G enerals Whoolor, Lawton and Young in full uniform. The speaker rapped for silence and introduced the president to the an hence, after congratulating tho State of Ge6rgia upon the presence >f their distinguishod guests. As 'ho president. arose, the audience ap lauded. During the cour'e of his ihort speech Mr. McKinley referred :o his notes and constantly paused or the cheers to stop. A scene of utense enthusiasm followed when mith impressive silence these words .l from the lips of the president: 'Every soldior's gravo made during ,he unfortunato civil war is at.trib ited to American valor. And while, vhen those graves were made we liffored widely about the future of he governmont, those differences vore long ago settled by the aibi ramont of arms, and the timo has kow como in the evolution of senti nont an( feeling under the provi lonce of God, when in the spirit of raternity we should share with you Lu the care of the graves of the Con ederate soldiers." A wild cheer went up from every broat in the typ,icaml southern audi flee, a cheer that echoo.l and 10. chood through the chiamber until it ras taken up by the crowds out ide. Old men who fought for the South 0ose from their seats and waved heir hats. Onme Confederate veto an, now a venerable legislator ,had ressed forward until he was lean ig against the speaker's desk, hang gon each word the presidlent uit werd. When the reference was iade to the Confederate dleadI this 1la man huried his head in his arms nd wvhile cheers rang out criedI like little child. Of all the many con ihatory speeches which have been indeo since Grant said, "Let us ave peace," nothing more dleeply tirrod a southern ~andl ionice than t he im pie words of President McK inley [is afternoon. The president spoko( as follows: "Sectional lines no longer mar bme map of the United States. Sec onal feeling no longer holds back Lie love we bear~ for each other. 'ratornity is the national anthem, ung by a chorns of forty-five States nd our territories at home and lbe. onld the seas. The Union is once iore the con-inen altar of ourt love ad loyalty, our devotion and sacri cc. Thme old flag again waves over a in peace with new glories which our sons and ouirs have this year aded to its sacred folds. What ause have we for rejoicing, sadden d only by the fact that so many rave men fell on the field or sick ned and died from hardship and xposure, and others, returning, ringing wounds and disase frmm which they will long slfer! The Monory of the dead will be it pro. Cious legacy and the disalt-d will be the nation's care. "A ition which cares f.,r its dis. abli d soldim4rs a we iavo alway? done will noe-,r la k for defendors. Tho national cemoteries for those who fell in battle are proof that tiho dead as well as th living havo our lovo. What an army of silent seit i nols we havo, and With What loViig care their graves are kept. "Every soldier's grave mado dur ing our unfortunate civil wiar v4 a tributo to American valor. And while, whle those graves were 11111de, wo differed widely about, the future of this goverilielt, the differences were long ago sottled by the arbi tration of arms-and the timo has now C01130 in the evolution of senlti mont and fooling under the Provi donce of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we should sharo with you in the care o. tho graves of the Con orato soldiers. "The cordial fetling which now happily exist betwoon the North an] Sont.h, prompts this gracion act, and if it needod further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union anld tle 1lg, so Conlspicu ously shown in the year just passed, by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dod. "Wiht a gl ions flitur awaits us if unitedly, w .ly ainid bravely we face the new pk'lems now prossing upon us, dotormined to solvo them for right an(] humanity." No sooner had President MeKin loy concluded than theroe woro loud cries for General WNhieeler, and when % that little man got up, his head scarcely higher thian the speaker's dek, the aidience onc moro gave %'v-1t to wild enthusiasm. General Wheeler referred eulogistically to thw efforts of tihe president. towairds proserving poco as long as the. coun try's honor would permit such efforts, and of his masterful policy afterward. General Wheeler paid a tribute to Admiral Dewey and added: "The army, in conijunction with the navy, was ordered to attack and destroy t tho Spanish forces in Santiago. In four weoks that order was oboyed and its purposes accomplished. The proud Spanish it ion stood suing for t pelle from t1he na11tioll which a month before it had hold up to ridicule and .SCO1111.)) Call- for Brig.adivr Gvneral Yonig 1 bronght tit otilcor to his feIt wi:h ( a short. speech regarding the condi- a tions of the army campsl) in the SouthI. A' He said1 that no troops in the wvorld d were better, mlor'o regularly fed and t treated than were thle troops 'ni Sonit h s (Carolina anid Georgia. General Law- a ton was loudly cheered but refused t, to make a speech. Hlesimply th anked,' , onl bohailf of his mon01 at Sattiago, o tile legislature and1( peoll of Georgia ~ for their trihut imsel S'cro- u tary Alger reins speaik and( thle c legislatur ie dissolved. Th'e president 1hold a p)rivalt. re copt ica ml tihe sonaito and1( afterwvards I ai public recoeption on1 tihe stops of ii the rotunda. There wvere hundreds sa of Southerners crushing and1 jostling ti each othIer in thelir antxietfto shako h at nort hern presideunt's hand. Many v had1( comoI fro.n mile's distant anid f< wvhen at 2.1 pL J. mi., thle president 1, had left the capitol there were hun-- a dreds bitterily disappointePd b)ecause5 b they hand noet beenO able to mallko their t< way tbrough theii su rging throng to t get a seconds hold( on hiis hanide. p Thoii day's festivities included ah unligno para1ido, which was roviewed by the president, andl a rec(ption to- n night to the distinguished guests at i the CJapitol City clubi. ( Cen,t.rn I lutihor f.agmue 'To be hold aIt St. Philhip's churcI'h, Devotional exercises by thei presi dent. ( T1he L.uther Leaguei as a fraternalp organiation -MNessi R. l1ilmund( Shealy, ~ R. P. Luther, Revs. G. S. Heoarden and W. K. NSlih.t Reciltation by Miss Maggie Harroe. .lho mission of t,he C'ontral Luther League.-Miss Maii Hobb, Rovs. *J. *J. Long, J. II. F'ox and S. TI. H-allman. b I'Cssay-Hom1o1 Mission 1iold -Miss LillIianu Luther. Query box. Commi-t.tee. ' 1h HO41,1hM 4u111 Votton Culture. (Columbia State.) Another warning to the cottolntot i- sounded by a correspondent or tie Now York Sun, Mr. Edward N. Townsend, of Hempstead, Long Im. land, who writes: "Tho attention of our peoplo for the past. few years has been so fully occipied by the important (lestious at homo- tho financial quiestion, tho, Cuban, the Nicaragat Caalt, the Iiawaiian and others of less magni. tude, but still of great intermst----thatt it is doubt ful if they have given to Grent Britain's operations in Egypt tho Ittention they deserve. Sine our vivil war, Which Enlig land's cotton mill owners in Lan cashire felt so koonly in a financial way, by their inability to seicuro cot ton frum our Southern States, hor statesmoin iaive given mucih time and thought to the quostion whether or not cotton, equally IS good as that grown in the United States, C mld bo raised inl certain tparts of the British 10om11ainH. Art.r much offort. and a [argol expOlditire of money it wits round t1hat, it could ho grown ink lI afi, but, of it (ua1lity which would lot cOInIpare with tha 1it raised inl this !on0Itry. Aistralasia, too, prov'd 1inshitalible to thle proplr cltivation )f that plant. Conl'-4'quont y t1oso N-h1o direct. tho dostinios of (th Brit Sh Em'ipiro saw tHaIt 'n order to nak11O ilfs manufaturorsmpedoent )f (lie United States, in so far at. (ast as cottonl wats concerneld, it wag iocessary for Great Britian to secure or all tiioit a hold on Egypt, and eg,yptian Soudan, territory in overy vay suited to the growth of tle inest cotton. "How she hits been aided in h( r fforts in that dir-ection by the bhun loring of French statesmen wihen hoy relimqtished the joint control of ity p by declining to allow France to ay her share of the cost of putting lown the insurrection led by the lidi and the reconquest of the ;oudan is familiar to all who keepin ouch with the world's important vents. Fortunately for Great Bri. ain, her statesmen saw their oppor unity and embraced it, with the re ult that Egypt and the Egyptian ooudan today are practically British orritory. 'In another year, unless unfore Ben difficulties arise, Gon. Lord itchener, the commander of the Lglo Egyph lan forces, will have riven the Mahdi from the Soudan rd have restored that territory to nrglo-Egypjtiani rule. Seven hiunii red squnare miles of territory, or a ract fourtoon times as largo as tho tate of Newv York, will have been dlded, for all intents and purlposes, > the British Empire'; a territory, >o, a latrgo part of which is capable f producing cotton of the finest untlity, better thatn that riaised aniy-. here wit hin the United States, exX ept that grown on the sca islands if the coast of Georgiat. "T'hus it will be soon tht CGreat iritain has practicallby mad hiersol f idependent of us for her c~ottonI upply, for she wvill he able to utilize me Soudan for that purpose, and ave at her conmmnd for the culti atuon of her fields the Egyptian lilahin, who are very satisfactory tborers and( in overy' way ias citpable1 s our Southern negroes. They can (1 secu red at wages ranging fronm 9 > 15 cents ia day, as against fromi 50 75 cents wh ich our Southern cotton lanters are oblhgod to pay for simi tr kind of work. "'When it is also considered that II unllimited( amotut of British capi ul is awaiting investment in this in ustry in the Son lan, for which its wniers will he satisfied wvith at rotuirnm f from 4 to 5 por centt on the prin pal, while our plantors must pay roma U to I10 per cent for the money 103' use, the atdvanatages. of the plauit rs of thle Soudlan over our Sout.hern laniters in th,is pairt iculair industry ill b)o obvious. Fnirthlermiore, by bius utilizing the Soudatn, Great ritain will niot only be able to sup ly the wanuts of her mianutfacturo-rs ut the world at large at figares wit hi ,hichi our planters' cannot compbote. "This year the United States have roduced atbout fie.sithso ath cot. toI grown tirouglioit thI, world. What production of tho total they will grow fivo years from now, win, 1British subjvels inlvest. their cipitl in tho cotton fiol(1 of tho Smdan, is a quelIvstionl which will iot. mly int-or. est our Sotthorn planters, but tho peopl of onr eitiro conlltry. I t. would soom, if British entirprist and capital tiako full adviitlago of th .itiitionl Which tloh Souidan presents, that. fivo ceaits cotton or fivenl lower will bo iho future prico of t hn Amer iCitnk article, inld with tho lower lprieo It mucMIh lesseoed delmald." Is this dangor chimorical ? We tur io tho Encyclollw,llia Brit In ica anld finld that. Mr. Townsenld is (Ilito within the mark when ho prediets SOee, illerealsig, anfld possibly dis ant rons comv pt it ion from the Somdon inl tho production of cotton. Tho Soudan, OVOIn inl Cho mo ro - stricted i1maning of tho word, "has nll extrolmo length of iboult 3.00) milos hotween tho Simogl rivor and Abyssinia, extending southward it somle point- 00 miles, with a totl areia of perhap11l11s 2,0000000() Squaro miles, anlid i popilationl approxiliato ly estimated at from 70,000,000 to 80,000,000." "The Soudant, ProPIer ly so callvd, lmly be dhecribedi as a ilodeiately .levated regionl, diversi fid with extosivo opon or rolling p!atilns, lovol platelaus, andl( evoln trull highlands, especially inl the south wost." ''Ai exbllranolit forest Vveg0 tation is favored by the rich alluvial soil ind tropical heat wherever m11ois Wuro abounds." Theli collton troo is indigenous and ablundillt througshoit, the Sou1dall, anild cotton is plaic-d fit, tho head of the list of "chief culti vated plants" throughout, thI. great area, two-thirds its extelsive " tho United States. In overy Stato of tho Soudan, soparitely imionttioned cot - ton app(ars to he a leading agriclil tural product.. But limit.iiig the inquiry to4 0ho territory formerly bolonging to Egypt. and no' rcovered,--DIrfl-, Kordo fin), Sonaar, Baall-Oliilal, the equa torial province-comprisiig from ono-third to ono.half tho ron of tho Solldan, and taking Senar, jtIst Vast of Khafiltollil, its a sample, we find that "lho soil, ma1tinly a1ll1vial, is ni turadllly fertilo, nd wlm-herover wiator and hands are availablo yiolds b)ounll twouls crops of mfaizo, pulse, coton, tobacco, SPS11110 anlid especially dut, of whi Its iny as tweity varieties a1re said to bO cultivIted." In .the light of t heso facts whoI( cant fadil to s(oo a great mea3ilce to the South's Cot-torn sup remaicy in) tht no4w - It is not netcessairy to iimiport, I10gy I ian laborers to mtako that country a great prodtucr oIf cotton. TIhe nat. Live p opu lation is very latrgo, arid, whiilo miixeid inl chitaneor, conta*ins a p)redlomfinnt olemnent of uinusuaul i' toll igentci, indu1 lstry' anrd skill for Africans. The1( exploi0tationl of thle resouirces of thIt Soudanr wvill gikchly follow its restorttion to Anglo. Egyp. [ian coiit rol, t ho conunu1111mint ions5 wit.h iuropo b)y wvay of thte Nile wiil he' st ill further iprov'ed, attn under thle s tmulus of British caplital and1( enIter priO ttmay look for just t hat ri v aIry whliichi Mr. Tlowtn4'Ind forecast s. For years past5 E'gypt iatn cottoni hits been imiiported init to Uited (( Staltes in inctroasinrg quan11it ies anid hias Itad tho preCferenice in matny Iine14s of mnan iufactute. Whait wvill it bo when the presentt limiutetd toen available fot the( ropl in 10gyptj is supplemtttetd by the btoundh>ess and1( egnatlly fettile ter ritory of the. Uppe1)r Nilo? Tlhte Sout h mu tst prepare for thiis Coil)pjti tion by d ises4tal lishiin g cotton as t ho basis of its inid ustrv. It canntiot koop downi' Sotudans 1151COm. pttition by undttersellIinrg E'gy ptiart gradles, for thait is donto niow and to so efflect , th It1l0gypi tiai cotton bteinrg b)oter t hant ours andt comnandlrlting a bh,behr plrico. T'ht Sonuth~i must grtow Cottont only to thte etetlii that it patys to grow it; it tmilst Itr.-'. to othler crops andl mtake ready for a (lay een tmoro (evil t han th pt lresent. WhaIt t wo( tmarnufactnro iat home t-hero will always bo mnonoy inr, butt we canTinot count upon01 profit ini raising '7,000, 000 hales for nXI)et 1,11th coiliest (If thm Soildln, which (ivinvral Kille,kkner Imas btlginlmi CaRrTiOd filr.war .d Wilih 81u(h sinlar SuICCOss, will pic un 11der (onktiol of wt Brit,ish a vast, rit. a of Innil for CII lIVitt i1n. 'Ito fatle, I lint. ieutrv OVIy Iero of this h111l is (11pablo of pro-u'ing" cqto ut f at grado I l b'ut IS ie its iiat grownl o oI lr sonj. i; lauds, Is silel to mak(Itt 84-ti on adi Htio to tho probltwm with whith te1l t)ott gr1ow(eVI s h t i Son hr Thm whoil. 'emrM of En"1.hill'Is Voil trol of ('14,1cypt mnd o I -r1 4:i iIm-st of thoei dorda is ridi r to i cu rI awt 11 tI'tmi on which tottoi can be pro. du10ied. silv(, in I 1 u114, he:i t l h t weil (lt) Staties duigwhich thw lw,4i1h mlill owners s iffer-d sliiu l owi-m lossf lu s O h re1tii (f L b u iit Io loviuro cottonk from tilh' Southern1 States, tho g oviInm n11 ilt if F It 1111iitain lim beeni tring t ecr tt-rr1-itory which wvill prod"lwc cottolt (