The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 23, 1901, Image 2
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0. W. WOLFE .
BftU?r &od Proprietor.
It is a singular thing that a surplus
in the national treasury causes almost
as much anxiety as that unfamiliar
ondition, a deficit, would. Whatever
money accumuliates either in the
treasury or in private hands is withdrawn
from general use and tends to
disturb business conditions. Moreover
idle money, with nations as with
individuals, is always a temptation to
xtravagance. Still very few of us
are so afraid of getting a little mouey
ahead.
Augustus B. Wylie, in his "Mod rn
Abyssinia," describes an interesting
custom observed at Yejju, by
which a long engagement is brought
to a happy ending. Th? betrothed pair
go secretly to the outskirts of a village.
The man hides himself, and the
girl shrieks. The first man who comes
to her rescue is speared by her sweetheart.
The couple may then go homo
and be married, for moral sentiment
demands that every bridegroom should
have killed his man.
The depopulation of Ireland is still
going on; in fact, last year, a greater
number of emigrants left the island
than the year before, and by far the
groater part of them came to the
United States. The total number of
emigrants in 1900 was 45,288, an increase
over 1S99 of 3347. Over S2 percent
of these v ere between the ages
of 13 and 35, showing that Ireland
is being gradually drained of its best
^ bone and sinew. Of the total number
of emigrants 37,765 came to this country.
Oreat Britain received 60.70. New
Zealand 64. Canada 472 and Australia
834. It is significant that of the 472
that went to Canada 229 came from
tfce province of Ulster.
The children's room in the Smithsonian
institution in Washington was
opened recently, to the great delight of
thousands of resident and visiting children.
This Voom fills a long felt want,
for previous to its opening children in
search of knowledge had to roam all
over the building to find what they
needed and caused much unnecessary
trouble, both to themselves, the
teachers and friends who took th"in.
and the employes of the institution.
The room is spacious and has ben
tastefully decorated, and it contains
specimens of all tlie subjects which
eould possibly come within the proper
range of child observation and study.
The room is no sense a kindergarten
for girls and boys in their teens easi)(r
take advantage of opportunities afforded
far investigation. The collection
of birds, butterflies and minerals
Is said to be unrivaled in this or any
other country.
According to an estimation by the
American Grocer the nation's drink
Mil amounts to $1,228,674,923. of which
11,059,56.3,787 is for alcoholic liquid*.
Official statistics show it says that
prosperity has brought with it an increased
demand forspirltuous and malt
liquors, while the use of non-alcoholi*;
beverages shows a very small gain
and in the case of coffee, a decrease.
Out of the total sum of $1,228,674.92>
about 86 percent Is spent for alcoholic
stimulants. The cost for non-alcoholic
stimulants is as follows: Coffee. $125,
798.530; tea. $37,312.00$: cocoa, $6,000,000.
This ailded to the $1,039,503,787
spent on alcoholic drinks represents a
yearly per capita expenditure for beverages
of $lt>.17 for the 76,304,799 inhabitants
ck the United States, of a
little less than 4 1-2 cents per day. The
consumption in 1900 of tea was 41G.515.885
gallons, and of spirits and
wines 112,675,873 gallons. The statistics
prove that coffee and beer are the
favorite national beverages and that
coffee holds its supremacy over fermented
liquors; that the consumption
of alcoholic liquor increases in prosperous
times and that it was larger in
19?<0 than lor any year since 1893. It
is lees per capita now than 10 year*
ago in spite of last year's gain.
Things are coming Count Boni's way.
To win a dt: 1 and a lawsuit i- more than :
happens to the avenge nobleman in dis- .
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All the Great Industries Being Taken
By Trusts.
S26.I00.000 COTTON lL'CK COMPANY
A Large Number of Mills Merged, Including
Several Located in the Southern
States.
New York, Special.?Official announcement
was made of the formation
of a company which will acquire
the larger oouon doc k manufacturing
concerns of the country. The new
company will he known as the United
States Cotton Duck Corporation, and
will bo organized under the laws of
New Jersey. It will have an authorized
capital of $25 000,000 of 6 per
cent, cumulative preferred stock end
$25,UOO,rtOO of common stock. The total
issue of preferred stock for pres< ut
purposes will be $16,100,000, which includes
stock proviued for the cxclian ;.*
of both Issues of the Mount Vein.;u
Woodberry Cotton Duck Company and
* 1 A TYAA AAA -m ot/\/*lr T>V O b i n CT 5
$ 1 U.UUU.UUU I'UmUiUU OIUV.U, uiwiug w.
total of $26,100,000.
Speaking of the merger, S. Davis
Warfield, president of the Continental
Trust Company of Baltimore, who
flnamctl the Mount Vernon-Woodberry
Company and is chairman of the board
of directors, sai 1 "Arrangements have
been i ouipletod through the acquisition
of stocks of existing corporations,
or by purchase of the propertit
s themselves whereby the manufacturing
establishments, plants business,
quick assets, brands, good will,
etc.. of the following concerns now engaged
in the manufacture of cotton
I duck and similar products will be acquired:
Mount Vernon-W ood berry
Cotton Duel: Company, of Delawa. ?\
owning 14 n:ilis acquired from the
following < ompanies: The Mount Ver
110:1 Company, four nil: s; the Woo Iberrj
Mam.inc u.. ?ug Company, ft.e
mills; the Laurel .Miils, ot Laurel,
.' i'i., r i a :i tj i i v im- ..us.-, riu.iii.,1.
vinf. -Mil.; ihe Tauasuce F.dis .Man.ifa(
tai ;ii0 Company. l'allassee, Ala.;
Gyecn wood Company^ New Hartford.
Conn., i .i.i the Columbia Mills, Columbia.
S. C. The latter company
controls a number of brands, some < ?
which have been in use for upwards
I of half a century. Another group of
j mills aMjuired by the new company
includes the Stark Mills, of Mam hosier.
N. I'.; the LaGrangc Mills of I.aGrange.
Ga.. and the Hogansvil.e
Manufacturing Company, of Hogans|
viile, Ga.
In addftiou to these properties Mr.
Vv'nrflckl proceeded to explain that the
i: *w corporation has the option rig.i
extolling to January 1. 1903, to purehase
the noils and properties of the
West Point Manufacturing Compan y
and several other concerns located .n
Georgia. It is understood that the
new company will be incorporated an J
f .-finally organized this week.
| TKEHENUOUS STEEL COM BIN Li.
Many Largo Comp-nbs Unite Their
Interests.
Chicago. Sp?M ia:.?The Chronicle
savs: A combination of the outside
steel concerns with a capital of $2b?\090,000
is said to be in process of promotion
by John W. Gates. John l.anihert
and Isaac L. Kllwood, the promotel
s and organizers of the American
Steel and Wire Company. The
concerns to he gathered into the new
combine are the Colorado Fuel an I
Iron Company, the Republic Iron an 1
Steel Company, the PennsylvaniJ
I Ste<d Company, the Tennessee Coal
| and iron Company. The aggregate
capital of these concerns is J12.Vth'b.i.'OO.
The Morgan combination h:-.s
been seeking to affiliate one and all
of thcai at various times and negotiations
had advanced almost to the
' point of completion when the stock
market broke last week and spoiled
the arrangement.
Bank Clrrk Short
New York, Special.?E. L. Cbetwood,
it<?i fiArk #r?r the last 13 years
iu the employ of Brown Brothers,
bankers, was arrested, charged with
being short In his account? $12,000 n
one item, and that tbere are other
items showing shortages. Chetwood
entered the firm's employ 20 years ago,
as a messenger and for the last six
years he had bean receiving teller.
His salary was $3,000 a year and he
had the confidence of the firm to such
an extent that no bond was required
frcm him. Most of the money was
taken within the last six mouths.
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Telegraphic Briefs.
President C. M. Schwab, of the Pni-1
fed 'States Steel Corporation, gave the i
Industrial Commas:ion much inforina I
tion about the now company.,
Mrs. I/.>uis Botha. who has obtained
consent to interview 'Mr. Kruger and
urge h.iu to advocate peace, sailed fjr
i Kuroye on the steamer Dunvegan Ca
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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
The South.
Some trouble is apprehended when
the new rule of "no work, no food"
will be enforced against idle negro.s
in Jacksonville.
The Council of Regents and ViceRegents
of the Mount Vernon Association
attended Old Pohick church.
The seventy-third Company, Coas;
Artillery, left Newport News. Va., for
the Buffalo Exposition.
rrSi-r* mnr/lorarc fl/kntancOfl t/1 |W>
hangod and one to imprisonment for 33
years at Santa Fe, N. M., on Saturday.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will me>et next at Asheviile, N. C.
Rev. Dr. Rufus C. Burleson, a Baptist
minister and educator, died in
Waco, Texas, aged 85 years.
The Jamestown journeyman plumpers
ordered a strike Monday moruins
and the employes of every shop in
town went out. Their demands aie for
$2.5'J to $3 a day, a induction of h~ur<
to nine a day and a mor& string* t 1
control oi the apprentice-h p sy.-.etn.
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lite \u<tii
There has uetn a si ..hi fading ofT in
the cnli.cnien.a for i.:e rt^u.a. a.:nv
si.i.e the W!?n...a.^ei .. IL&. pmti.a .f
) the adve.tissuu.-.t saving th-t rw.u s
1 and new regiments wore being euiistel
for the Phiiippiues.
; The degree of doctor of laws ha3
j been conferred upon President Wll;
11am McKinley by the University of
; California. Only twice before, since the
j founding of the University ill 1808. h?.s
j this uegrce been bestowed by the :nI
etiti.tion.
The Twenty-third Regiment, of
j Brooklyn, has been ordertu out to
' quell the riots iu Albany.
{ Of a party of 26 persons engaged i.i
! a "starlight' ride two were killed an.l
a number injured by a collision with a
trolley car near College Point, L. 1.
j Fire along the Rouge river, at Dei
ray,, a suburb o? Detroit, Mich., cans (1
a lus3 of $800,100.
Former President Cleveland, who is
liShiug at .Midblebass, is having poorer
luck than usual. Two other anglers
have made bigger catelies.
At St. Luke's Hospital, in New Vers,
i twas announced that the condition of
l)r. Wintieid Scott Schley was somewhat
improved.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Carrie
Nation charged with "joint' smashing
returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence
wilt be pionuunecd.
The new North rivtr bridge between
New York and Moboken, 1 is said. w:d
be the largest in the world.
MiaS Christie Mel ion aid was married
at buzzaids Hay, Mass.. to Mr. Wi
liam Whiter' Jett'ersou, son of M..
Joseph Jefferson.
Night hundred machiuists .11 Chicago.
111., will demand increased wages
and a shorter day May ::0.
The Moline Plow Company of Moline,
111., has given the Plow Trust a
JTC'JO.UOO option on its plant.
A half million dollars was paid for
the First Methodist church, of Cleveland,
()., the yite being wanted for a i
office buiiding.
There is an ouianeaK or meisies ci
the Eskimo village at the Fan-American
Exposition. There are four ecu a
thus far. two of which developed .u
spite of precautions.
Foreign.
The War Olfice has received the following
froui the German headquarters
at Pekin: "General Liu's troops at
ttu-ked and scattered 1.00* Boxers, <.i
kiiometrnTtfouth of Pao Ting Fu."
Princess Frederick Charles of H sse,
the youngest sister of Emperor \vnliam
.gave birth to twins early Tuesday
morning.
The French budget for 1932 will b*
the largest in the hisjory of the nation.
I Kirs a in a note to the powers, asdares
ion; she will maintain the "pr se::t
leuipo.a.y s.tr.ation la Maarhu.ia '
! A new loan of 551.OOJ.OCO is being nep:?iaie<l
by Unad-i.
i General l>e Wet has , esumed op-rra
tions and is reported to have ir>ase.
into the Transvaal w.th 2.0(i'J* un u
j Sultan Abdul Ham.d has demand;!
! the suppression of the foreign posto;hoes
In Constantinople.
King Edward VII is said to be increasingly
nervous because of a reduction
of his cigar allowance.
There are renewed rumors from Berlin
of ecentric conduct by Emperor
William.
The Reiciistag will soon adjourn un
til November.
The Government of Uruguay is nub
llizing troops to put down a threaten d
political conspiracy.
Grand Duke Michael of Russia may
visit tlie United States.
Up to date there have been 610 cas.is
of the plague and 2175 deaths at Cape
Town.
Eight Italian laborers were gilled by
an avalanche at Gampodeleine, in th
Italian Alps.
Hiscellaneous.
The Vanderbilts and John D. Rockefeller
are declared to have had a prominent
part in the move to prevent J. P. ;
Morgan and James J. Hill from getting i
control of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. McK n
ley the President was obliged to tuk
her to ^an Fran fr^m Del Moot'.*
ahead of the arranged program.
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ahr m ilie FAST.;
He Telks of the Andersonviile Stories
.Now Told Again.
HILL'S SPEECH IS RECALLED
Bartow Philosopher Declares That
All Liars Are Not Yet Dead and
Lies Are Repeated.
As the poet Browning said: "1
thought the lit was dead and damned."
but it seems not. ^ndersonvillc
lias broken out again. We tlio.ignt
that cuv general?Senator Hill?hai
killed that whole Anderson ?*l!e
business in his masterly reply to
I'iaine some twenty-five years ay:;.
He proved from the federal records
that the suffering of their soldier
boys in that prison was the sin. the
crime. the shame cf Stanton who refused
jto exchange vrith us and ro
fused (o send medicine an 1 suppliers
for ih:ir sick. Wo <"i! the very best
we 0'ild and some honest northern
soldiers have .so written and published
n northern papers But ever
an! avm the same oil li" breaks
lucre again. an 1 now thev have
started a new or.:- about a sp'ing?
r !:< "1'ii.v!!: nee *'p:in;." whi< h they
: :v gushed forth fro a the ground
just in time to save their soldie.s
from perishing for lack of water.
And they are upending money In inclosing
ami beautify'ng the grounds
arcund the spring. The <onte.nipilule
liars. Scons of good old men still
live who k.tov. of that spring awav
trek in the -W's when Anderson*. 1 e
was a wilder r.cus and the spring was
known as a deer stand. Yes. it was
a Providence spring, for providc-nce
i-rnatml if and all the other serines
when He made the continent and the
rivers and mountains. Aadersonvillo
never lacked water and was
selected .'or a prison !c<a".se oi the
abundance of water, and that little
spring was of no consequence, for
it ran only about thirty gallons *m
h:ur. which would he less than naif
a gill a day to the prisoners. The
spring was covered up bv the ha:i Is
when ditching for the stockade and
its water found some other channel
and broke out again after a big raia
and that's all there is about It. No
Providence spring! Those everlasting
liars are just hunting up some
more devilment. This spring busin'ss
is another Barbata Ft iotcVe
delusion gotten up to keep the r.or.hetn
heart in tune and lire up '.oldman
Smith to write some more historic
lies# about, the south. L5ut
"whom the Lord ioveth He rhasteneth."
and our faith is that He
loves our people very much or Ho
would not chasten us so much 2nd
to leng with these vile slander3.
.,.1 1 : < mlnu husro nl! !>u!S
aH'i I oam iu iui*?v omw.. .
arc liars." said David. If ho had
lived up north in our da he might
have said it ar his leisure. We are
getting so an us tome 1 an ! so hardened
to their exaggeration and prevarication
that wr dent believe litem
.'/hen th.-y tell the truth. Hsto-y
S?.vs that Israel Putnam cravlel
Into a rave and ki'ed a wolf. I use I
to believe that bit ! doubt it now
sin; e Goldwin Smith has ?:rt ir?
Dyiedirt Arnold as a !- :ro I'/jvideuce
spring! what a lie!
Itut our veterans a:?* clearing :
this history business and our teachers
had better be ver careful whac
thev teach. 1 Maurv's geogracli
ihev teach. I never <li I understand
until recc-nti.v why Maury'c geographv
was ruled out of so manschools
and I'rve's was pet in. There
is some bribery in this school
book business. Money is paid to
school commissioners, or teache s\
>r some outside lawyers for their influence.
Last year a teacher high in oJTicf
st Knoxville was expelled for accepting
a bribe and I have heard It
< barged that a lawve- in Atlan*a gut
big money for boom 'a a book ir n
the public- schools. "{ -<*?" rule.' he
roost in eyerv c ailln - and theje >. \
-nni'v Job leh'nd thir< Anderson
biibines' . Prori-tenc * pring'
m coitntrv. w!ru p-or:'' ?
have to do w:t!i tV-* fellows to
let them run the" - course '
seen the wb ked pre er li" 1 -s
bay tree/' says David. An c;'; !;/
heard me say. "I wonder what makes .
the Lord smile on old Jim Wilk.as !
so. Jim is as mean as a dog. but
every trade he makes and everytii'h.T
he touches turns into monev, H? ir. j
g -tting richer and richer every year. '
The old darky said: "Why, boss, j
de Lord hain't got anvtning 10 no
wid Jim Wilkins. Lord haint noticln
him. Lord dun give him up long
time ago. Dat's why lie gittin rich?
old dehil ar runnin him."
Providence spring. But it is
mighty strange to me that the northern
people will let Goldwin Smith
scandalize the founders of our government.
1 thought that everybody
north and south idolized Washington
and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe.
I thought that everybody outside
of Massachusetts was proud of
Patrick Henry and Randolph and
Henry Clay. 1 dident know tha
Benedict Arnold had an admirer or
an apolgizer north or south or in
England or anywhere. I dident
know that Goldwin Fmitii was such
a conspicuous historian until this
last, history appeared. It appears
that he is a great favorite in England
.and Canada and is a conttibutor
to the leading magazines ami
co-editor of an English cyclopedia.
But we are malting progress. Providence
spring! Those yankoes say
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that just in the nick of time when
hope was nearly gone and despair
had set in for want of water Providence
upheaved the ground and the
water gushed forth like it did when
Moses struck the rock with his rod.
Mr. Pillsbury, of Amerieus. an honorable
veteran, was there on guard
and says the whole thing is a made
up lie. and it ean he proved so by
many old citizens of Sumter county,
i We will have to nail that Anderson
ville lie to a board and put in up at
the forks of the road. We will brand
it when we meet at Memphis I
want to meet Colonel John Cussons
there and thank him for his little ,
book. I want every veteran to have ^
fine. The price is only 25 een's, and ^
it is worth ten times that iuu? h to
, have it in the house and refer to it
| sometimes when we get eussiu ma 1.
Providence spring! I'm going to
see if I can't beat my naborg, Oary
; and Yarbrough and Corley acd Mrs.
Fields, raising tomatoes. Mr. Corley
has put out only six plants and says
they will give him twenty bushels
of fruit. Mr. Yarbrough. the preacher.
has six plants. He dug six wells
about two feet deep and filled them
up with all sorts of fertile and says
he will have a wagon load. I.ast
year he had eight on one stem--all
touching each other, and the eight
weighed twelve pounds! I've seen
the photograph. I've got out 10?
plants and am not done yet. an 1 they
laugh at me. but 1 want a load or
two to give away. My garden must
keep me busy. It wrin't do to sit
down and brood over trouble and
Blander an.l lies. 1 pick strawberries
every day but I'm not fond of the
business. Have to stoop too much,
and it gives me the backache. I'm
the only hoy ieft and my folks kee*
me very busy.?Bill Arp in Atlanta
Constitution.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
("Ira ml -Mike Michael of Russia may
risii rlit* Fuited States.
Premier Waldeek-Rousseau,
France, has recovered his health.
Pietro Maseajrni. the composer, is
writing a life of (Siuseppe Verdi.
Lord Salisbury returned to London
from the South f France looking exceed
inply well.
Aguinaldo is an enthusiastic wheelran.
lie learned how to ride in ."long
Kong.
The degree ni doctor of laws lias
been conferred on the Duke of York.
l?y the University of .Melbourne.
Martinis lto. the Japanese stateamaii.
is suffi ring from brain trouble
and Is not likely to resume olRce.
\V. F. Draper, the Lowell mill-owncr.
will live Italy, to which country
he formerly the AniC'lcr.a.
Alalia: sailor.
Sir '1 nomas Upton has just received
from Mr. MeKiuley a photograph of
tiie President, bearing a cordial greeting
in autograph.
Senator Joliu P. Jo n s, of Nevada, '
has over iiitVs.etl in orange- ?
groves near Los Angeics. i':il.. and hue
become quite an ein.v; judge of the
.fllit.
1'result ni I'lap of .li* co Is said >
be a mo si ahsjeinioi.s man. lli.- dally
fare i? ainius; > > tr an. and e\eii w.ic
h" lends idrb'.al l-aivoi -is Ik ?, pirtu
bul liith- iVoia ' .i p'ti:::- il!?i.
A Hie:..villi vi'v of -p.-iitl n, nnie
of ihe sc.niic oa.i'iii :hai adopted
by xi..> King ? !' i.r . <v. He i.ti-ns
farm ard -an ' ; I'mid. in and
bind corn .a si; rl. !- a farm piling
in in sta?\ to l i. -.i. . - .l.o;;g!i it
Were his business.
< ssiikui 1 )i ''? i! . ; ill We.Sl > 11*jrinia.
en.vs 1 lift i'r s-I*Mclviliicy is
l?lnlit*iii^r .<? i?*iv i hi* world a I 1st* expiration
oi" his 'lorin ?.' nifiiv. The
l'i i*sid??iit'* fort ijrn l: i;? *i ill. ic is s ;" 1.
, l?i* more evlt'llsivr ilian mad.: bj"
(i.iii*ral tiuim iu ihTT.
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f'rl|fhlei'?*il liy S?n*llirw I't r * ?
i.. hla "On the Frontier" Mr. ''aaapion
says that while he -.vs.*, <" .*?in?
he Isthmus cf Panama some ? ar*
j
1 ago the roue ;jtur ibli-rinsly stopped
the train for him to ^.-.tbsr some beautiful
or in3<. : tlcwer.; u;i .ho rcaas.de.
! "I refused oZ-:rs c! ass.stance and
! went a ion a to p!u:k the flowers. After
rsttirirg a handful I not.ced i larjce
led r' [Innts. knee high. a.:d of dellcr
; fern and of bea-tiful y.ettt shade.
! wj.keit to the;?. broke off a 11
s; ray and placed it with the dowers.
To ray amazement 1 saw that I had
gathered a withered, shriveled, brcv.nish
weed. I threw it away, oarefully
selected 2 large, bright greeu Plant
and plucked it. Again I had in iuy
hand a bunch of withered leave3. It
flashed through my mind that a sudden
attack of Panama fever, which g
was very prevalent aud much talked *
of. had struck me delirious. I went
'ofT my head' from fright. In a panic
I threw the flowers down, and was
about to run to the train 1 looked
around; nothing seemed strange. I
felt my pulse?all right. I was in a
persptration, but the heat would have
made a lizard perspire. Then I noticed
that the plants where I stood
seemed shrunken and wiited. Carefully
I put my finger 011 the fresh
branch. Instantly the leaves shrunk
and began to change color. I had been
frightened by sensitive plants."
A Berlin dispatch announces the discharge
of fi.OOO employes of the great
? J -1^1 pes molnrKr
j Krupp iron ana numii, umu.uo
),000 discharged since October last.
\nd the Berlin Tageblatt siya "one'ourth
of all the working people of %
jermany are either idle 01 insufficiently
employed."
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