The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 18, 1897, Image 6
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are tryiug to prove that universal jns|
Uce may be a business success. They
started in on the text that "AH labor
Is equal in value." and for three years
bare faithfully lived up to it. By that
standard a diligent president should
be paid no more than a diligent hodI
carrier, and the sculptor's chisel earns
either more nor less than the barber's
razor. An hour of good, hard work,
whether of brain or muscle, is the unit
<of value by which all achievement is
measured.
The practical .object of the com-!
Eg inanity isto see if the world cannot do
, without the system of hire, by which
men are worked with no direct interest
In the result. In Ruskin every
(thins belongs 'o everybody: the profit
j? of the community is the profit of each
tan In It, and the honest endeavor of
every member helps the other two hundred
and thirty jj:st as mnch as it does
himself. Each man owns the wealth
* he helps to make, and gets the profit
of his toil. The plan has been tested
by three hard, struggling years, and
Its founders no longer regard it as an
experiment They hare built a city j
without avarice, and in its future lies i
the solution of the bitter difficulties
that split the world iuto two angryfactions,
known as labor and capital.
. In Buskin the government is literally
by the people and for the people.
It educates the children, pensions the
aged, provides for the sick and gives a
home and a good living to ail. men and
women alike, who are willing to work
for the common good. The president
gets the same recompense as the buteh
er, and neither talent nor training can
niter the value of an hour's labor.
A journalist by the name of Wayland,
who ran a labor paper in Greensborg,
Ind, was the first starter of this
new Utopia. After firing nil the socialists
in the country with his articles
r>E?n>E5T J. H. DCDSOX.
a community property and the equality
of labor, be called tor volunteers
whs should build their own city and
- , coatrot their own farms and factories.
He looked at various tracts of land,
mad tnalty seat an agent to inspect an
mfcrfliin wilderness in Tennessee,
k.. Tim advertised "farming land** was
darned with huge trees and impene?.
$ tsahie underbrush. The "town" was
fy a dark, sunless ravine, without food or
* V v water. The "populous neighborhood"
was peopled by a few forlorn, indolent
naif eta aad a number of fierce razorhacks
In spite of this report, howSt;
!$> ever. Way land purchased the property
tpd boomed it magnificently in his paper.
8ooo the pioneers in the cause of
aodaitam began to *et out for this new
Eden, which they knew vaguely as
"taUn. fifty miles west of NashTffle.
Tbe first to arrive was E. B. Lonstmry.
whose ardent socialism was considerably
dampened wben be found
w , himself In a mod cabin on a gloomy
sMekUl. with a dense jungle on alli
?' aides and no water within half a mile.
.* - He might hare gone back forever to
capital and Inequality, but bis wife
followed the next day, and a few days J
later a socialistic shoemaker dawned
en the borixon and helped dig a well.
^ A month later that dismal valley con
g? tained a carpenter, a machinist, a bor:
ber, n shoemaker, a batcher, a cooper,
a farmer, a wire nail operative, a farmer.
a blacksmith and a man in gent
^ end. who was put down as a laborer.
Hot long after the founder of the community
dropped in?and was wise
' eeoogb to leave without ostentation or '
farewells, after meeting their exasperated
questions with a mild suggestion
? that the best thing to do wai to pat up
K. manufactories and make themselves
Into a big city as quickly as possible.
The community, left to itself, decided
that its one chance of a future lay
la the erecting of a printing establishment.
so baker, barber, wire nail ot-erafter
and all joined the one carpenter
and pot np the building. That, a iittle ;
clearing and a few cottages, was all
L j that was accomplished that summer. :
and the winter brought hunger and
cold and otter desolation.
'? Lonsbnry and eighteen others ineor-;
porated the colony under the law gov- j
enting the formation of mining and
manufacturing companies, laid out ave- j
" noes, cut down trees and were very j
I CoM. hungry and uncomfortable. After]
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a year of stiuggle they decided to move
to a more passable location.
After some exploring a beautiful, fertile
valley was found. Five hundred
acres of magnificent soil are now devoted
to orchard and vineyard, corn,
wheat and oats and to the homes of the
colonists.
One thousand acres of beautiful for
est land represents the stock farm. A
three-story building contains the cooperative
dining-room and the theater,
and in the library there are more than
1.000 books, chiefly on socialism and
economics. The whole place radiates
cheerfulness and energy. It would be
hard to flr.d in the working classes of
any country sixty other families who
are as well oil as these, who fare so
well, have as many comforts and can
give as much time to reading and music.
There is a newspaper, whose week
ly circulation comes to more than 30,000.
and so brings up the salary of the
Iiuskiu Postmaster to a figure unusual
ONE OF THE HOCSES.
in so small a town. There Is a mortgage
of S-kOUO on the farm, but 505
acres of fertile land can easily take
care of that Vhe actual worth of the
laud improvements of Rcskin is estimated
at JOO.OOO.
If there were any doubt as to the socialistic
sincerity of the Ruskinites. one
remarkable fact in their history would
remove it torever. The seventy-eight
stockholders paid $500 apiece for their
shares, which have now risen to a value
of The question of a dividend
was brought up, but was voted down
by the stockholders themselves, who
preferred to devote the surplus to the
I general good. since tbeir object was
not personal wealth. When any one
wants to join the Kuskin community
I he must pass a written examination on
j his principles. He must be able to do
any useful labor assigned to him. he
I must believe in uniform compensation.
! he must be able to coherently define socialism.
communism and competition.
A ballot is taken on bis answers. If it '
bis favor he jays down and takes
possession of his cottage as a regular
member of the colony. He is guaran|
teed work for every well day and pay
for every sick one. He has neither j
taxes nor rent to pay. nor doctor's bills, I
| nor school bills, nor washiDg. His cliil- j
dren are given schooling, music, lan-,
guages and industrial training for:
nothing. He Is entitled to draw checks j
for fifty hours' work each week. If he
does more It is not paid for. and so is a j
gratuitons present to the community. I
There is no taskmaster to watch him.
but he is Dot expecte-1 to shirk. Three |
who attempted it were promptly sns-:
ponded from the community.
If he has a wife, she is also entitled ,
to earn fifty hour-checks a week, for j
she is paid Tor working in nor Dome. |
The children get their living in return i
for going to school and are allowed to
earn twenty honrs' wortn of labor
checks a week out cf school hours.
The coin of the r?alm is in the form
of paper checks, xrhich represent so
many hours of la* or. The schoolmaster.
after teachin; all the moming, receives
a paper check which certifies
that he has dore three boars* labor for
the community and is entitled to an exact
equivabat. When outsiders come
to the store as many of the neighbors
do, they par for their purchases in
cash, as the., would anywhere, but
there is a separate price list for the >
Ruskinitc, reading somewhat as fol-;
lows:
One ponnd of tea 11 hours .
Three .sticks of candy hour j
One cut of tobacco 2 hours ;
One pair of trousers 27 hours I
One lemon hoar j
One pair woman's shoes, best. .521.^ hours '
One pound crackers 2^ hours
One pound of coffee 7 hours
One gnl.'on coal oil (P-j hours
One straw hat 15 hours
One pair best shoes 70 honrs
One quart peanuts 1 hour
One yard gingham 2 hours
One gallon gasoline 6 hours
The first two years of the community's
existence were all struggle anil j
suffering end discouragement, and it j
needed the courage and heroism of the j
Pilgrim Fathers to keep the little band
together. Socialism lived In a Tennessee
wilderness is a very different thing
from socialism read in a book or spoken
from a platform, and many a time the
members would have gladly gone back
to theory and left the practice alone. 1
Some dropped out, disheartened, but of
the thirty-five original members twenty j
still remain. The community can now i
show seventy-four heads of families, J
and numbers 214 members in alL Mil-!
sic receives as much attention as art j
and arithmetic and scroll-sawing in the j
schools, and the depanment earns Its'
principal's labor checks for eighty
hours a we< k. It already possesses five
pianos, sevcu organs, nine violins, five
guitars, one bass viol, one banjo, three
cornets, two flutes, one fife, one piccolo
and one tuba.
The people of Ruskiu arc all from the
laboring classes and many of them have
little education, but the greatest interest
is taken ia that of the children. For
the smaller ones there it a kindergarten
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out of doors in a beautiful grove
of beeeli trees. In addition to the reg- |
u!nr school there Is a class in tine arts, j
where drawing, painting, sculpture and {
pptterymaking are studied under Pro- '
fessor Isaac Broome, a well-known ;
sculptor, who was one of New York's j
commissioners to the Paris Exposition. \
Professor Broome has long been a theoretical
socialist, and has played a ]
prominent part in the community. ;
though he comes from a much higher i
walk of life than most of the members.
He takes a leading part in the symposiums.
as the weekly meetings for socialistic
discussion are called.
The chief claim of the Iluskinites is
that as common people they have skill
fully managed a great social and business
undertaking, and so far have
made no serious mistakes. In one year
they have increased the value of their i
holding by $32,055. and contentment
and harmony pervade all they do. If ]
they could accomplish so much surely i
able, trained organizers could do much
more, and from that they argue that in
time the State, the country, the whole
world would be run on a communistic
basis. No personal capital, labor the
standard of value; from these they de- ,
duce a world without covetousness, j
which is almost a world without sin.
DANCING HAS DEGENERATED.
This Dcc'arat on Is Made by the !
Countess of Ancaster.
The Countess or Aneaster. who has
created a great stir in the fashionable
world of London by her declaration
that dancing has degenerated into a
graceless romp, is the wife of Lord Willoughby
d* Eresby. the baron of Avsland.
The.countess' daughter. Evelyn
Clementina, is married to Maj.-Gen. Sir
Ilenry Ewart, the queen's equerry. This
fact and the very high social position
of the conntess herself give more than
ordinary importance to her opinions upon
matters concerning society, and
dancing Is certainly one of these.
Countess Ancaster's husband's family
Is one of the most ancient in the Norman
r.obility of England. He is the
twenty-second Lord Willoughby. The
first was Walter do Bee. upon whom
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William the Conqueror settled the barony.
Lady Willoughby herself Is the
second daughter of the late Marquis of
Huntly, the tenth of that title.
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The New Wizard.
Young Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian
electrician, has been attracting attention
in the scientific world for several
years. Although only 23 years old.
it is said that be has accomplished
something that Tesla and Edison eiper
imented for without any great success.
Marconi claims to be the inventor of
the wireless telegraph.
While the idea of "wireless telegraphy"
is not new, it was deemed by
many to be almost impossible to bring
it to snch perfection that it might be |
made of practical atttity. The Italian
says that the distance to which he has
transmitted messages, twelve miles, is
GrGZ.IEI.MO MABCOXI.
on!v limited bv the imDcrfection of his
present appliances.
Nicola Tesla declines to comment nt
length of Marconi's inventions, on the
ground that he himself has devoted a
number of years to the study of the
great problem of transmitting dispatches
without wires.
Electric Liicht on Battlefields.
Special attention is being given by '
the French military authorities to the
questions of succoring the wounded
on battlefields when night comes on af- |
ter a great battle. Experiments have
been made with powerful electric arc
lights, but the apparatus has conditions.
At length it has been practically
determined that the ambulance
corps men shall wear little incandescent
glow-lamps In their hats, just like .
ladies of the ballet in a spectacular ex- <
travaganra. Each man is to carry a j
little primary battery In his pocket for 1
the production of the current. The i
wounded in need o? succor will look 1
ont for the little moving lights, and if ]
possible drag themselves toward them.
?Paris letter.
A Magnetic Hill. \
the Island of Canna (situated
northwest of the Island of Rural there .
is a hill so magnetic as to affect the '
compasses of vessels passing near. .
Every womaa in telling of her sick- }
ness says she "suffered everything." j
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^ Bronchitis, Croup, Wi
Grippe; and it so str
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strong and well."
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great soreness of the ch
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It AAA A A A A ^
. A TURKISH COUNTRESS
Once an American Girl, ?he X Now
the Wife of a Paaha.
The Countess Djemll, the beautiful
wife of Gen. Hassan Djemll Pasha, i
one of the most distinguished of the i
Turkish commanders that took part in i
the recent triumphant campaign i
against the Greeks, is an American I
woman, and a few years ago was a so- 1
eiety belle of San Francisco. She was i
formerly Miss Eva Taaffee, a grand- i
daughter of the late W. T. Taaffee, i
who was prominent In busiucss circles j
In early days. Miss Taaffee went to |
Paris five years ago. entered the con- (
seravtory there, and attained quite a ]
reputation as a singer. Gen. Hassan \
Pasha is a Belgian l>y birth and enter- ,
ed the military service of the Sultan
twenty years ago. He adopted the j
Mohammedan faith with the privilege J
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COUXTRESS DJEMIL.
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3f taking but one wife. The Count ,
Mid Countess DJemil reside In one of {
the handsomest mansions In Con- ,
stantinople, presented to the Count by
the Sultan as a token of regard for
his military services. I
It is understood that tho President 1
has decided to make practically no more 1
ippointments until the assembling of 1
Congress. <
A negro colony has been formed near <
Decatur, Ala. t
Director Preston, of the Mint Bureau,
is beginning to feel that he is out of the
(roods in the matter of metting the de
mand for subsidiary silver coins. i
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lot often possible and not alv
rhs and cures: Why not fit th
climate to the lungs? It is t
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re cure for colds and coughs; :
hnrminor CVnicrh if nr^vents 1
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the lungs and heal:
marked by all the signs of Ir
cured by its use. Dr. Avers
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lalf Price, 50
srv'hing for asthma without success At la
nas immediate." S. A. El
despaired of ever finding a cure for chronic
torn Aver\ Chenv PectorrJ. I can testify as
"R. G. l'ROCTOR, M." D.
children in my father's fainily end there 2re ?
rememSer, been without Ayer's Cherry Pec
cough that this remedr did not cure."
Hon. WM. E. M
bed fcr ten months and was attended by six
2d consumption, and some of them said she <
\ver's Cherry Pectoral. It seemed to help I
.hese were all used, she was completely
J. W. EWING,
lr my wife sntlered with lung trouble. She
est. and experienced difficulty in breathing,
y Pectoral effected a complete cure. We reg
k had triad had failed to even give relief."
C. H. BUKftlS,
AYATATAVAYATAVATr
BROTHER OF THE NOVELIST.
W. H. D. Haggard the Near Brltiah
Minister to Caracas.
W. H. D. Haggard, the new British
minister resident at Caracas in Venezuela,
is a brother of the famous novelist,
Rider Haggard. He Is the first
diplomatic agent to be sent to the
South American country In many years.
The relations of the two nations have
not been such as to permit the presence
of a British minister in Caracas. Now
that these relations have made way for
a more cordial feeling the intercourse
has been resumed. Mr. Haggard is one
Df the oldest men in the service. He
has been In the consular department
Tor foil thirty years and has filled many
minor offices. Since 1S94 \?j has been
? W. H. D. HAGGARD.
Sritish consul general at Tunis. His
nissioD to Caracas is in the way of pronotion.
Mr. Haggard will be succeeded
it Tunis by Sir Henry Johnston.
The following sign on a farmhouse
lot far from a certain Massachusetts
:owu is possibly responsible for the
racant rooms and the complaints of
:he owner. "Boarders taken In."
George Washington, in his best estate,
.*ould not have been more truthful
iian tb* author of the sign.
in a uuck
A duck shot by Edward Jackson, of
Ltchison. bad a nine-pound tUb in its
sop ha gas.
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:toral |
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i specific for Asthma, ^
^neumonia, cures La 4
5 the torn tissues that i
icipient Consumption ^
Cherry Pectoral can '
cts. I
st we used your Cheny ^
.US, Keene, X. H. 4
: bronchitis, I derived 4
to its efficacy." >
, Oakland City, Ind. 4 ~;#t(
icven in my own. We ^ -/lirS
tora!, and have never 4
A SOX, Chicago, I1L 4 '^j
different doctors. Ail ^ ?
:ould not live a month.
iter, so I secured one ^ i.y
cured end to-day is ^ >'
Camdcr. Point, Mo. ^
: had a severe cough, ^
A three months' treat- d 4
;arded it as rcnarkable,
Marine Mills, Minn. ^ Ji
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GLADSTONE'S GRANDSON.
Fonth Will Inherit an Estate Both
Valuable and Historic.
This Is a late portrait of Mr. Gladitone
and bis grandson. Master W. /*
r.iadstonc, the heir of Hawarden. It
Is all the more interesting because Mas- grfigl
. ter Gladstone's portrait baa never be- 'v .
Tore been published, xonng Gladstone />?
is the son of the late W. E. Gladstone,
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GLADSTONE A> D HIS HCIR.
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and supplants his father as the heir
of the estate of the former premier.
Vhe photograph of the lad and his_
grandsire Is excellent, and gave extreme
satisfaction to the family. The
likeness of the boy is fachlesa. He , '
Is seen standing at the side of the
statesman, whose right band affectionately
holds the left ha-a of bis grandson
and heir. The photograph was taken
beneath the wall c Ha warden Cas-* vtie.
W. H. Gladstone, the father of
Master Gladstone, was the eldest son
of the statesman, and died in the mid-'
die of a career that had given great
promise. Like bis eminent father, he
was a good politician, and sat La Par- . ";
iiament for some time as a representative
of East Worcestershire. His - 1.^3
j"oung son is a noble child, and inherits
much of the brain and brilliance of
"the grand old man."
And now in London they are fighting
the long bat-pin. The editors don't ij
6cem to be "stack on It" ^
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