The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 27, 1900, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD,
Published Every Thursday
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WN08TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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0. W. WOLFE .
Kditor and Proprietor.
, Count lioni's experience is said to
have discouraged several foreign noblemen
who were coming here for
wives. It is too much to hope that
Anna Gould's experience will discour?
age Amerl.can heiresses.
In the judgment of Sir Thomas Lipton
it is not the conservation of w iter
but the conservation of wind that is
Kq far thp TIPTt iritor
lUUOt IV VV. \?V17?*V? ?-v
national yacht race for the America
cup. If he could only put up a corner
on wind as he did on pork Sir Thomas
would be hnnpy.
State boards of arbitration appear
to have failed signally in the purpose
of their creation. Twenty-three States
have laws providing for arbitration,
and these laws are dead letters in all
but Ave or six of the States. In the
States where public boards of arbitration
survive, labor interests at odds
prefer fighting?a resort to strikes and
Innlr.nnfc?rothnr fhon on unnoul tfk
4UVUUI IA4UAA Uii ?v
these supposed beneficent institutions
of a progressive State. This is because
State arbitrators have not suffii
cient experience iu the affairs from
which labor troubles spring, to inspire
confidence in either capital or labor
when necessity of adjusting differences
arises.
In that turbulent land, South America,
the birth of a new republic is
scarcely more of an incident than a
revolution. Some fifteen months ago
a great banker and rubber dealer set
up as President of the forest republic
of Acre. His constituents were some
50,000 white people, drawn thither by
the rubber industry. His republic lay
along a trioutary of the Rio Grande,
partly in Brazil and partly in Bolivia.
It Is conveniently inaccessible from
either, and in spite of a half-hearted
.visit from a Brazilian gunboat and a
reverse on the Bolivian border. President
Aries's republic thrives, and his
operatives combine the peaceful pursuit
of the rubber industry with the
sterner duties of war.
Some acquaintance with the expectations
and the despair of science is
necessary in order to appreciate the
full beneficence of the Zeppelin air
ship. Whatever may happen hereafter
it is a fact that in the present century
of science and invention Uount Zeppelin
ascended in his machine a thousand
feet from the earth's surface,
traveled a distance ofsirty-elglit miles,
made a dbtour and came down at the
starting point, and that he subsequently
ascended five-eighths of a mile
and executed various manoeuvres.
The airship may get beyond control
and sail away, as so many lost balloons
-have done, but no twentieth century
boaster can deny that the dirigible
airship is the invention of our own
time.
The New York Tribune comments
upon the census for l'JOO as follows:
"The United States, at something
more than seventy-six millions, is the
greatest nation in the world. The direct
reference is. of course, to numbers
of civilized inhabitants. Onlv
three others outnumber it, and in no
one of them is the standard of civilization
or of individual intelligence for
a moment comparable with our own.
Russia proper outnumbers us by less
than twenty per cent. But a nation
in which probably not five per cent,
of the people can read and write, ancl
which has only 20,000 miles of rail
roads to our 190,000 or more is scarcely
to be compared with this. India is
larger in numbers than Russia, if we
regard it as a whole, and more highly
civilized; yet its intellectual and industrial
potentiality Is far below that
of the United States. China is probably
the most populous of all, but intellectually
is scarcely superior to
Russia, and industrially is probably
inferior. Certaintly its preponderance
of population cannot avail to place It
i>y the side of the United States." ^
DEMURRAGE RULES
State Railroad Commission Estab*
Hshes Them.
The State railroad c mission has
jiromulgated its own demurrage rules.
This means that the State commission
Ti-iii jinnofi'npth Haal nnlv with the rail
roads themselves in maiters of demurrage
and does not in any way recognize
the Car Service association and
its rules and regulations.
Below is the circular promulgated
yesterday and forwards I to the several
railroad lines:
The railroads are hereby authorised
to operate the following demurrage
rules within this State:
Rule 2.?The railroad companies
vice charges.?All freight in cars,
whether full car-load or not. shipped
to one consignee and taking track delivery
is subject to car service regulations.
Rue 2.?The railroad companies
shall give prompt notice by mail or
otherwise to consignee of the arrival
of goods, together with the weight
and amount of freight charges due
thereon; and when the goods or
freight of any kind in oar-load pantfties
arrive, said notice must contain
letters or Initials of the car, number
of the car. net weight and the amount
of freight charges due on the same.
Storage and demurrage charges may
be assessed if goods are not removed
in conformity with the following rules
and regulations. No storage or demurrage
charges, however, shall, in
any case, be allowed unless legal notice
of the arrival of goods has been
given to the ovrner or consignee thereof
by the railroad company.
Rule 3.?Legal notice referred to in
these ruled mf.y be either actual or
constructive. Where the consignee is
personally eerved with notice of the
arrival of freight, free time begins at
10 o'clock a. m. on the day after such
notice has been given. Constructive
notice referred to consists of posting
notice by mail to the consignee. Where
this mode of giving notice is adopted,
there shall be 24 hours additional free
time to be added to the 72 hours, to be
t?? lmfloA was
compuxea hvui uaj <*l ^
mailed; provided, however, that if, in
any ease, where notice of arrival is
given by mail, the consignee will make
oath that neither he. his agent nor
employees have received such notice,
then no demurrage charges shall be
made unt*. after legal notice, as above
specified, is given.
Rule 4.?1. A charge of $1 per car
per day shall be made for detention
of cars and use of tracks when cars
are not loaded or unloaded within 72
hours, except when loaded with grain,
flour, meal, bran, mill feed, cotton
seed, cotton seed meal, cotton seed
hulls, fertilizer material, hay, coal,
pyrites, bulk apples, bulk potatoes,
bulk cabbage, dressed lumber (in box
cars), brick and crushed stone, 96
hours will be allowed for unloading.
It being understood that said car or
cars are to be placed ana remain accessible
to the consignee for the purpose
of unloading during the period
in which held free of demurrage; that
when the period of such demurrage
charges commences, they are to be
placed accessible to the consignee for
unloading purposes on demand of the
consignee; provided, however, that
If the railroad company shall remove
such car or cars after being so placed,
or in any way obstruct the unloading
of the same, the consignee shall not
be chargeable with the delay caused
thereby; provided, further, that when
any consignee shall receive four or
more cars during any one day taking
track delivery, the said cars in excess
of three shall not be liable to demurrage
by any railroad company until niter
the expiration of 96 hours.
Any fraction of a day shall be considered
a day. N
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Rule 5.?wnen ctMsiguuia cmt..
goods consigned to themselves. It shall
he the duty of the railroad companies
to give legal notice to such consignees
or persons to whom shipping directions
order delivery. This notice may
be addressed by mail to the consignee
at point of delivery, and demurrage
will begin as in other cases of notice
mail; and the mailing of such notice
shall be sufficient legal notice in such
cases, whether the consignee actually
receive the same or not.
Rule 6.?Where the 'fmsignee shall
refuse to accept freight tendered in
pursuance of the bill of lading, the
carrier charged with ? e duty of delivery
may give to the consignor legal
notice of such refusal; and If he shall
not, within five days thereafter, give
direction for the shipment or unload*
*- Vio shall thence
ing or sucii gj, uv, ??
forth become liable to such carrier foi
demurrage upon the car or cars in
which they are stored to the same extent
and at the same rate as such
charges are now, under like circumstances
by the rules of this commission,
imposed upon consignees who
neglect or refuse, after notice of arrival,
to remove freight of like char- j
acter from the cars of a carrier.
A consignee who has once refused j
to accept a consignment of goods shall
not thereafter be 'entitled to receive |
the same, except upon payment of all i
charges for demurrage which would
otherwise have accured.
Rule 7.?A consignee living more
than four miles from the depot, and
whose freight io destined to his residence
or place of business so located,
shall not be subject to storage or demurrage
charges allowed In the abovo
rules until a sufficient time has elaps
ed after notice for said consignee tc
remove said goods by the exercise ot
ordinary diligence.
Rule 8.?Railroad companies are authorized
to store such property in public
warehouses at the expense of own
er, if same is not removed before do 1
murrage charges attach.
Rule 9.?When any railroad company
fails to deliver freights at the
depot or to place loaded cars at an ac
cesslble place for unloading within 72 I
hours (not including Sundays or legal
holidays), computed from 10 o'clock
a. m. the day after the arrival of the
same, the shipper or consignee shall
ho naid SI Der day for each day said f
delivery is eo delayed.
Rule 10.?1. Cars containing freight
to be delivered upon carload delivery <
treks or private sidings are to be delivered
upon the tracks designated by
consignee upon arrival.
2. Cars containing property, the billing
of which does not specify any particular
delivery and for which standing
or special order has been filed ?
with agent, within twenty-four (21) r
hours, will be considered as requiring a
general track delivery, and shall be t
so placed after twenty-four hour*. I
3. Cars for unloading shall be con- s
sidered placed when such cars are \
held in receiving yards awaiting or- t
ders from shippers or consignees. ;?r r
when held for payment of freight r
charges, provided the railroad com- t
pany could otherwise have placed t
such, cars on delivery tracks, except ^
that on cars consigned to private sid- t
toga already fully occupied and de- f
livery therefore impracticable, deteu- t
tion Is to be computed from time of t
notification. I
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Whenever tne weune: uum^ i
period of free time is so severe, in- r
dement or rainy that It is impracti- ?
cable to secure means of removal, or
where, from the na:uro of the goode, I
removal wouli cause .njury or dam
age, such time shall he adde-t to the t
free period and no demurrage charge* J
tthall be allows fur such ariditu-~ul f
time. t
This rule applies to the state rf the i
weather during business hoars. i
Rule 11.? Railroads shall not dis- (
criminate between persons or places m (
storage or demurrage charges. If t
a railroad company collects storage or
demurrage of one person, under ihe i
demurrage rule3, it must collect of all ?
who are liable. Wo rebate, drawback t
-
of other similar device will he allowed.
If demurrage is collected by a railroad
company at one point on its line,
it must collect at all places on its line
of those liable under the rules of thl*
commission; Provided. That this rule
shall not apply to package freight received
in less than carload lots and
unloaded at depots and warehouses.
Provided, further. That the commission
shall hear and grant applications
to suspend the operation of this rule
whenever justice shall demand this
course.
Rule 12.?Cars detained or held for
want of proper shipping instructions
or by reason of improper or excessive
loading (where loading is done by
shipper) shall be subject to a> demurrage
charge of $1 per car for each day
noUnn r\t a H?v sniri OAT Or cars
are so detained or held. Likewise, 1
when cars are properly loaded and
shipping instructions are given, the
railroad agent must immediately issue
bills of lading therefor; and if
Raid car or cars are detained or held,
and not carried forward within fortyeight
(48) hours thereafter, said railroad
company shall be liable to said
shipper for the payment of $1 per car
for each day or fraction of a day that
said car or cars are thus detained or
held.
VT-*. AV.oi.frac c Via 11 hfi
IVUie UU1U vuatbsu
made for storage or demurrage exeept
as provided in the foregoing rules.
And these rules shall become effective
February 1, 1901.
W. D. EVANS, Chairman,
J. C. WILSON.
C. W. GARRIS.
Commissioners.
D. P. DUNCAN, Secretary.
A Work of Art.
The Youth's Companion Calendar
for 1901 is a beautiful work of art, in
the form of a panel, intended to hang
upon the wall. It is a most perfect
specimen of the lithographing art, the
conception of the designer being reproduced
in all its original beauty by
twelve colors?printings finished i
bright embossed borders of gold. The
antral flerure. an exauisite portrait.
head. "The Piirltsn Maid." a fair-hair- 1
ed, blue-eyed beauty of the olden time,
is set in an illuminated oval border,
surrounded by clusters of rosea, which
from a back ground for the month?
arranged below.
The calendar is given to each newsubscriber
to Youth's Comoaniou, or
sold to non-subscribers for 50c.
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Open to Foreign Trade. a
London, By Cable.?The Dally New* r
publishes the following firom its f
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Shanghai correspondent, dat<.*d Friday. r
"Chang Chih Hung announces the recent
issuing of an edict for the open* <!
ing of Wu Chang, opposite Hankow, to g
foreign trade. Wu Chang is the centre e
of an imported trade and the site of t
the terminus of the Canton Railway." 1
Dan Keegan, said to be a resident of c
Cincinnati, O., while attempting to r
? ? \t xr r
board a freight tram at aeu>h, n. i? was
struck by a west-bound Delaware c
&Hudson train and killed. s
A handsome young man stole kisses ^
from three women in Harlem, N. Y.,
an Tuesday evening. {
Thomas Parker, a British gold-hunt- t
er, was found frozen to death near the c
mouth of the White 'River, in the Klon- j,
kike. ?.
Most of the Berlin papers will raise z
their prices in January, owing to the t
1 high price o( paper v
rREATV IS RATIFIED.
he Ray-Pauncefote Treaty on the
r an*!
VOUCH
'ASSES SENATE BY VOTE 55 TO 18,
>Ix Roll-Calls and Several Viva Voce
Votes, and a Number of Amendments
Voted Down.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
Senate consumed an hour and ten
cinutes in amending and ratifying as
.mendment the Hay-Pauncefote treay
for the modification of the ClaytonJulwer
convention of 1860. There were
ix rollcalls and eeveral viva voce
*otas. All the amendments, except
hose offered by 9enMor Foraketr and
e ported by the committee on foreign
elations, were voted down by majorizes
averaging about 19. The rstlflcaixm
resolution was adopted by a
TCTLe or 00 to IS. 1<W ocuaio wkb IU Oi curtlve
session for about an hour beore
the (time for rating arrived, 11benlng
to speeches by Senator TIiutson,
Gallinger, Woloott and Bard, ex>lanatory
of their attitude. The two
oreign relations committee amendnents
were rqad first and were acceptsd
without division.
The first roll-call was upon Senator
21 kins' amendment, - declaring that
'nothing contained in this treaty shall
>e construed to prevent the United
states from, acqiuring at any time sufkient
territory and sovereignty over
.he same, upon wbdch to build, manige,
operate, defend, fortify, protect
ind contra' said canal, or for any oth.t
purpose as the United States may
lee in beet In its own Interests. "It
jvas loot by a vote otf 25 to 45.
Senator Foraker withdrew his
tmendment, because tney were me
tame as those reported by the comm.ltee
on foreign relations; Senator Penise
Ms, because It wea practically
Senator Beveridge his which was
dentical with Senator Elkins,' and
?vere?d by the second of toe commit
;ee amendments. The other amendments
were voted down by decisive
majorities. The vote on Senator Tillman's
amendment, authorizing the de'ence
at the canal and the maintanamoe
>f public order by the United States
vas 27 yeas to 43 nays. The treaty was
;hen read. The vote upon the treaty
tself, as amended, resulted as foloto:
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Yeas?Aldrich, Allison, Bason, Beve Idge,
Burrows, Carter, Clay, Cullom,
Seboe, Dillingham, Elldna, Fairbanks.
Poreaker, Foster, Frye, Gal linger,
iale, Henna, Hansbrough, Harris,
tfawley, How, Jobs*, of Nevada;
K.ean, Kenney, ijinasay, m\r
Bride, McComas, McCumber, McEnery,
tfcLanrln, McMilHan, Mallory, Morfan,
Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus,
Piatt, of New York; Prttchard, Proc;or,
Quarlw, Scott, Shoup, Spooner,
Stewart, Sullivan. Talaferro, Tnursx>n.
Turner, Warren, Wetmore, Wol;ott?55.
Nays?Allen. Bard, Ba(e, Berry,
Butler, Oockrell, Culberson. Daniel,
rleltteld, Martin, Mason, Mooney, Petti
rrew, Teller. Tillman. Turley, Vest
tVellington?18.
The pair* on the treaty vote were as
'ollowa, two Senators for the treaty
>eirg ipaired with one against fit in
iccordance with custom: Depew and
:ewell for, with Rawlins against:
~!lark and Simon for, with Chilton
iig-ainst; Doliver and Baker for, with
rowne against; Caffery and Piatt, of
ronnecticut, for, with Jone3, of Arkan5as,
against, Kyle was absent and udttirsd.
The text of the treaty as amended
>tatC3 l.t3 objects as: "To facilitate the
. otli-truction of a 6hlp canal to connect
he Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and to
hat end to remove any objections
vhich may arise out of the convention
>f April 19, 1850, commonly called the
?layton-ttulwer treaty to the construc:iOn
of suoh canal under the auspices
3f the government of the United States
without Impairing the general princi)le
of neutralization In article 8 of
>f that convention." Its provisions folows:
Article I.?It is agreed that the canal
nay be constructed under the auspices
>f the government of the United
states, either directly at its own co3t,
it by gift or loan of money by indiIduals
or corporations or through
nibsoription to or purchase of stock or
(hares, and that, subject to the pro-ieionS
of the present convention, the
aid government shall have all the
igbte incident to suoh construction,
is well as the exclusive right of prodding
for the regulation and manage
nent of the canal.
Article II.?The contracting parties
lesiring to preserve and maintain the
:eneral principle of neutralization
otablished in article VIII of the Cla.yon-Bulwer-convention
.which convenion
is hereby superseded, as the basis
>f such neutralization, the following
ules, substantially as embodied in the
cmverition between Great Britain and
terfcain other powers, signed at Contantdncple
1n 1S88, for the free navi^.tion
of the Suez Maritime Canal, are
adopted, that is to say:
1. The canal shall be free and open,
n dme of war as in time of peace, to
he veseels of commerce and of war
>f all nations, on terms of entire equally.
so that there shall be no discrimand
on against any nation or its dtiens
or subjects in respects of condiiona
or cnargeB of traffic or other- I
rise.
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2. Tire oanal shall never be blockaded,
nor shall any right of war be exercised
nor any act of hostility be committed
within it.
3. Vessels of war of a bellgerant
shall not revictual nor take any stores
in the canal except so far as may be
strictly necessary; and the transit of
such vessels through the canal shall be
effected with the least possible aelay.
In accordance wiith the regulations in
force, and with only such intermission
as may result from the necessities of
the service. Prizes shall be In all respects
subject to the same rules as vee- Jm
seLs of war of the belligerents.
4. No bellgerant shall embark or
disembark troops, munitions of war or
warlike materials in the canal, except
in case of accidental hindeTance of the
transet, and in such case the transit
shall be resumed with all possible dispatch.
5. The provisions of this article shall
appl yto waters adjacent to the canal,
% within three marine miles of either
end. Vessels of war of a belHgerant
shall not remain in such waters longer
thin 34 hours at any time except In
case of distress and In such case shall
depart as soon as possible, but a vessel
of war of one belligerent shall not
depart within 24 hours from the departure
of a vessel of war of the other
beHgsrent. It Is agreed, however, that
none of the immediately foregoing conditions
and stipulations in sections
numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 sad 5, of thte article,
shall apply to measures which:
the United States may Una It necessary
to take for securing by its own
forcas the defence of the United States
and the maintenance of public order.
6. The plant, establish meats build*
inga and all works necessary to the
construction, maintenance and operation
of tha canal, shall be deemed to
be part thereof, for the purposes of
convention, and in the time of war as
In time of peace, shall enjoy complete
Immunity from attack or lnju-.-7 by
beligerents and from acts calculated to
impair their usefulness as part of the
canal.
7. No fortifications shall be erected
commanding the canal or the waters
adjacent The United States, however,
snail be at liberty to maintain such
military police along the canal as may
be necessary to protect It against lawlessen
eea and disorder.
Article III.?The convention shall be
re tilled by the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate thereof, and by
Her Britannic Ma^eBty; and the ratification
shall be exohanged at Wash<np-f/vn
nr at T wrvrfnm wifhln rIt month-*
from the date hereof, or earlier if possible
"JOHN HAY.
"PAUNCEFOTE."
The Holiday Season.
As the 1900th celebration of Christmas
is so near at hand most everybody
Is consulting railroad guides .and
steamboat paanphlMs with a view to
finding out the easiest and quickest
foute from the South to the North. ^
East and West. The "Bay Line" has
recently issued an illustrated booklet,
describing the ease and comfort with
which its passengers are enabled to
make a very delightful trip up the
Chesapeake Bay, its steamers leaving
Portsmouth, Norfolk and Old Point
Comfort every evening (except Sun
day) for Baltimore, arriving tnere in
time to make connections with the
early railroad trains for Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, and all the
points reached by the different railroads
running out of the "Monumental
City." For Instance, travelers
reaching Portsmouth in time to take
the steamer "Georgia" on Monday, 24,
instant, or from Norfolk or Did Point
Comfort, will be able to reach Philadelphia
by 10 o'clock Christmas morning,
New York by dinner time, and
Boston in time to Join in the revelry
of "Kris Kingle." Most of the railroads
running direct to the Bay Line
steamers have put In a rate of one and
one-third first class limited fares for
the round trip, full particulars of
which can be ascertained at all local
railroad stations.
The well-equipped steamers of the
"Bay Line" need no comment from us,
as travelers who make the long-distance
trips from the South to the
North and have tried this popular
route, go again. It being enjoyable as
well as profitable; as one of the pleaaantest
parts of the Journey, via Baltimore,
in addition to the trip to one of
the magnificent steamers of this Company,
is the unequalled opportunity it
affords of a good night's rest in the
commodious staterooms of the "Alabama"
and "Georgia," which invite the
occupants to peaceful repose, so essential
to the full enjoyment of the holiday
at this festival season of the yeai^
Wholesale Proclamation Wanted.
Ix>ndon, By Cable.?From its Cape
Town corespondent. The Daily News
has received the following. '"The second
invading force was designed to oc
eupy Bristown. Being cnec&ea Dy cow
DeAar troops, it has disappeared into
the Ceaderberg mountains. An enrommous
concentration of troops is being
nade upon the veldt country occupied
by the invaders, but it is not likely
that the Boers will offer battle in large
numbers. There is a renewed demand j
foi the wholesale proclamation of mar* f
tiai law." y
Brief Hention.
Germany has 33 cities with popula<tions
exceeding 100,000.
Considering the fact that we have
grown to a nation of over 75.000,(^50 it
is about time for the cartoonists to give
Uncle Sam a trifle more substance to
his attenuated frame.
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