The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 25, 1901, Image 2
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THE COUNTY RECORD.
Publiihed Erery Thursday
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NLING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
'Add the "golfing spine" to the
'housemaid's knee," the telephone
car" ami the "bicycle face."
All over the country, in every State
and Territory, the terrors of the law
should be made more formidable to the
kidnapers. The stealers of children
and those who go 1:0 further than to
threaten parents with the loss of son
<: daughter should expect no mercy.
Their punishment should be swift and
exemplary.
The Chief cf the Geological Bureau
nt Washington predicts that u.w
^ 1:>?T ?
eourccs ui <jh ?v ut
ered in abundance frcui time to time.
,TIiis is on the principle that nature
seldom does anything on a retail plan.
Hence the fever now raging i:: Texas
is likely to break cut at any time in
some new quarter.
The abuses oi so-called "graveyard**
Insurances have become so serious in
certain States that loud demands for
legislative actions are heard. All civilized
communities which seek to suppress
lotteries and policy gambling
should endeavor to root cut the evils
of "graveyard*' insurance. They arc
intolerable, and not to be endured.
'Are women better than men? This
Is a question that E. S. Martin asks
and answers in an article entitled.
"Women," in McClure's Magazine. No
better, only different; or if better,
merely in a negative fashion. They
idrink less, smoke less ana certain oi
their emotions are less strong tHan
corresponding emotions in men. Women
are what men make them, and
while men are still appreciably far
from perfection, why. women will be
still a little short of the angels they j
are sometimes represented, and what ,
is worse, expected to be.
Rag-time music will take a new
lease of life if the recent discovery of
trim \Thon lin niltQ
ii X U119 ucuuot 10 (i v*v. ?f -V- ?x. I
the patient under the influence of gas,
lie connects his ears at same time with
a phonograph discoursing lively music.
/ This effects his psychic centres so
0
completely that in trying to find out
just where the syncopations come in
lie forgets the other delusions of the
gas, and the tooth is gently released
from its cerements of clay without
any struggle of the nervous system.
The idea has seemed of enough value
to be mentioned by an eminent French
physician as an agency in the Use of
nnnrtpHmtine oml thltC nrAuHntf I'n OV#
jcessive application of ether.
As might have been expected, the
President of Cornell University is net
a believer in the theory that a collegiate
education is a hindrance in industrial,
commercial, or financial careers.
In an article which Dr. Schurrnau,
himself to no small degree a
man of affairs, has contributed to
Success, he says that there is a large
and Increasing demand in all walks i
of life for college-bred men. As an
effect of this, he adds, "the prescribed
preliminaries to legal and medical education
are, step by step, approaching ,
graduation from college, and have
reached it, in some instances, while :
these professional courses themselves
have been extended and deepened, till
they are now nearly or quite on a par
with the old liberal training with
?!'ov *Tk-nr<1inntPft in the /
.iu.lt. ...1., ...l ? ,
modern university." Referring to en- :
glneers. President Schurmau says that
fifteen years ago the manufacturers 1
of machinery had to be coaxed to take '
those pioneers, the Cornell men, into ,
their shops and give them a chance.
But where one went many followed.
Last spring when the class of 1900 ,
came to graduation, every student in i
this branch was eagerly bid for two 1
or three times over. One great electrical
firm alone asked to be given the 1
entire class. There is observable, too, j
a gradual increase iu the call for col- <
lege-bred teachers iu the public schools. ;
and this demand will grow by what ,
it feeds upon.''
TURnlGUOLl Tilt CUliMRV.
The South.
An order has been received for 10).000
tons of Tennessee and Ker.tuckj
coal to be shipped to v<n:ce.
The Alabama Constitutional Cr.nv nticn
voted not to change th_* present
jury system.
Senator Karon, of Georgia, and a
number of members of Congress
sailed from Brooklyn for Manila.
The North.
The portra't of Lady Louisa M :nn r?
by Hoppner was sola in Lrnion f.r
$70,250 to B. Altmr.n. of New York.
EI Reno. Okla.. will b1 unab:e to r.c?
commodate the expected army of homeseekers
0:1 the reservation lands.
It is said Kev. J hn K-ller, of Arlington.
X. J., w 11 s^.'k v n I.canon o.'
the charges made by M.s. T. G. isa:kcr.
Two persons were killed in a Lakj
Shore railroad co .islon naar Cleveland
Ohio.
Another demonstration was mil!
against the ray c'*a rs in Madison
Square Park, New Yo:k.
Twenty passengers were injured by
a shifting engin - ' siiewip ng" a P n 1sylvania
express train at Columb s
Ohio.
? . 1 - >. ?T.iJr- r. ih.->re
r or me wt*cA niU'U9 nui; ^ IMw. v
were hs? deaths in Greater New York
due to Jieat.
Stockholder.! of the Cm.bridze Steel
Company voted r.aeu taously to sell
their property an J ass.ts to the Sonematish
Steel Company.
Attorney. Frederick D. White, son o'.
Ambassador to Germany Andrey D.
White, committed suicide at S. rac'use,
N. Y.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage last
week bought ?2S9,C30 short-term bonda
Secretary of State Hay returned to
Washington. 1). C.. for a brief stay.
Massachusetts Republicans will rc?
nominate Governor Crane for a third
term.
Presbyterian in Mexico have organized
independently of the Caurch in the
United States.
The Pardon Board Oi Minnesota will
act on the cases of Cole and Jamts
Younger.
Retail grocers of New York Stn'9
are in session at Buffalo to crganizj
a protective assnc'ation.
An exploding tank at the Williamsburg.
X. Y.. branch of the Standard
Oil Company injuied five max
Importations of precious s.onrs far
the past year at New York amounted
to $21.1)19.053, over $ J,(.03,010 more than
in any other year.
Foreign.
A hot wave has been prevailing In
London.
Prominent English Liberals at a conference
voted to sustain S r Henry
Campbell-Baniieiman as leader.
Prince Christian of D< nmark will
visit the United States in the coming
spring.
The Duke of Tetaan stated in the
Senate at Madrid that Spa n had refused
several times to soil Cuba to the
United States.
Riots at Seville, Sp3ln, were suppressed
by cavalry.
The Argentine Government has requested
the Chamber of Deputies to reject
the debt unification scheme.
The storms in Haiti have ruined
crops in the southern part of the isiand.
It is rumored at S.n Juan that Dr. J.
H .Hollander, secretary of Porto Kico,
will resign.
The Cuban Constitutional Convention
rejected the prelimina:y draft o.'
an election law for the is.and.
A Cape Town dispatch sta-cs that
Beers have burned the public buildings
at Murraysburg. Cape Colc.n.
Fire at the Glasgow Exhibition destroyed
a block of tea rooms.
A special embassy f.om Morocco has
arrived in Berlin.
Count Stanislaus de Castellan?,
brother of (rant B;n: de Caste:laue,
was married in Par.s to Miss Terry.
Plague in virulent form has broken
out at Amoy .China.
Rear-Admiral Crowninshield comes
forward with the claim that he wrote
the order to Dew \ to capture or Uc- .
stroy the Spanish i^eet at Manila. I
niscellaneous.
I
Andrew D. White. United States Amoassauor
to Germany, w.ll resign ne:.t j
rear. t
Messrs. Hudson & Awtrey cf La
Grange. Ga.. have received contact ?o
guild the forty-four ftve-room cotta:es
announced last week as to be erected '
by the Unity Cotton Mills. <
Messrs. J. A. Yates. Louis Minor ?
and J. H. Fowle. mentioned last we k :
is organizing knitting mill in Bir- t
mlnghaci. Ala., have asked for cha-- t
ter for the Birmingham Hosiery Mills. ;
The La Grange (Texas) Cotton an 1 >
311 Manufacturing Company has b"e:i J
incorporated, with capital stock o: c
150,000. for the manufacture of cotton, c
cottonseed oil. flax, flaxseed, soap and t
soap stock. The incorporators are (
Messrs. John Schumacher, Henry C.
Schumacher, C. J. von Rosenberg. H. ^
Ambcrg and F. J. Reynolds. 1
EPWORTIi LEAGUERS
Holding a Great Meeting on the P*
cific Coast,
iUA.M UAIlltK AI MA fKAAUilU
Congratulatory Messages Read From
1 he President, the Vice President
and Many Governors.
San Francisco, Cal., Special.?The
Citii inte:cat;onal convention of the
Epwonh League was Cyeued Thai sday
under the most auspicious conditions.
The weather was ideal and the
attendance equalled the most sanguine
expectations 01' all. The scene at the
Mechanics' Pavilion, where the principal
exercises ot the day were held,
was one not soon to be forgotten.
Never in its history has the spacious
interior of the pavilion presented a
more impressive spectacle, livery unsightly
inch or wall was hidden by
tastcfui decorations. Great volumes
ct music from human t^uoats and thu
accompaniment ot the Stanford organ
iaspii ed a feeling cf reverential actum
aucn and homage. The railroads
had virtually fulfilled their promises
and ianaed the last ot the Eastern
deiegut.es here in time for the introductory
services. The great army cf
invasion of bo.UoO men and women in
the rank and tile had been provided
for in a manner most gratifying to all.
The entire city is taking an active interest
in securing the success ot the
gathering.
The first services in connection with
the convention were held this morning
in the First Congregational.the Central
Methodist and tne Howard Street
churches, in each of which communion
was celebrated. Bishop Joyce, president
of the League, conducted the ser'.
ivos in the First Congregational
, \ ..../-.v, At -li.i fonrrnl Mpfhnriisf
church. Rev. John J. Tigert, of Nash- I
v'lie, Tenn., presided, and Rev. A. C.'
Crowe, of Toronto Canada, led the
congregation at the Howard Street
church. By noon the vast interior of
the Mechanics' Pavilion, capable of
containing ever 15,000 people, was
Itlled v. itn a mass uf humanity.
When the convention proper was
called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Rev.
Thomas Filben, of Pacific Grove, not
a vacant place was to be seen from
the grand organ to the farthest gallery
of chairs. After a service of
song, led by Robert Husband and participated
in by the chorus of the 2,u00
voices, the geneial secretary. Rev.
Jos. F. Berry, read a number of congratulatory
messages from prominent
men throughout the Union. President
McKinley, in his message,
said:
"I have much pleasure in sending to
the International Epworth League
Convention, assembled at San Francisco,
my hearty congratulations upon
the good work the great body or Chris- |
tiau men and women, which it repre- j
suits, has accomplished in the past,
any my earnest wish that even greater
success wiil crown the future efforts
of the League."
Vice President Roosevelt worded
his message as follows:
"My heartiest greetings, and may
good luck attend the Epworth League
in its efforts for social and civic righteousness."
Other communications were from
Governors Mc...illin, of Tennessee;
Shaw, of Iowa; Durbin. of Indiana;
Pates, of Illinois; Bliss, of Michigan;
Dockery, of Missouri; Stanley, of
Kansas, and Van Sant, of Minnesota.
All were received with cheers, those
fiom the President arm Vice President
arousing the audience to great
enthusiasm.
The c*.i-.iit:g exercises at the Mechanics
'Pavilion were presided over
l.y Hollo Watt. The first address was
by Rev. Onus, la.'aid Mitchell, who
upuke on "The Y ung People's Movement
in the Nineteenth Century."
"The Young People's Movement id
the Twentieth Century" was discussed
by Rev. G. \V. Kirby. of Montreal,
Canada. T. B. Hutchison, of
Napa. Cal.. spoke on "Methodism in
the Twentieth Century." At the
Alhambra Theatre tonight. Rev. A. C.
Crews, of Toronto. Canada, presided.
The young people's movement was
discuj-ted i>> Rev. Alonzo Monk, cf
Knoxvjiie. Tenn., and Rev. M. S.
Hushes, of Kansas City. Rev. E. E.
Scott, of Vancouver, B. C., spoke on
"The Methodist in the Twentieth
Century."
Rev. T. N. Ivey, of Raleigh. N. C..
was chairman 01 the Metropolitan
IV tuple meeting. Addresses were delivered
by Rev. W. C. Millard, of
leakers, N. Y.; Rev. John H. Ciernan.
>: Glen Falls, N. Y., and Prof. Collins
L/t-niiy. of Nashville. Tenn. There will
ic moinmg, afternoon and evening
gatherings to morrow at each of the
our meeting places of the League.
Slate flust Pay Liquor Tax.
Philadelphia, Special.?A Washing:nn
special to The Record says: The
rommissioner of Internal Revenue is
ixpected to decide that the State of
outh Carolina is wrong in its conttnion
against the right of the Federal
government to tax South Carolina
state liquor dispensary, wommisaiuuer
t'erkers will hold, it is understood,
ifter several conferences with Attorley
General Knox, that South Carolina
ias no power under the constitution to
ixempt dispensaries from the operaion
of the Federal internal revenue
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SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL j
Southern Furnl'ure Manufacturing:.
A recent paper on the furniture manufacturing
in the South, by Mr. E. M.
Armstrong, of High Point, N. C., furnishes
the following interesting information:
"Pormlt me to eive a few fac s in re
gard to the manufacture of furniturt
in High Point, N. C., as I am mot?
familir* with the factoii.s of that
place, and as it is a representative
Southern manufacturing town. The
first factor>- there the High Point Furniture
Company, began work in USD.
They first made cheap chamber suits.
Now there ere 33 factories, one foi
every 150 people. Thoma-ville, seven
miles from High Point, has 12, which
manufacture every article of furniture
which man needs from the.time he 11 s
in his cradle until he sleeps at last m
his coffin within his windowless palace.
It would be tedious to mention
the name of the diifercnt factories
and their managers and the various
1 articles of furniture manufactured,
which include everything that is needed
for use and ornament in a modern
dwelling, business hou3o or office.
These goods are shipped t> every State
of the I'nion and to some foreign
countries.
"The factories have been uniformly
and remarkably successful. Regular
dividends ranging from 10 to 2> per .
cent, per annum have been paid in !
nearly all cases. Stock sells at a ?0 :d !
premium without exception. Not $10,- j
000 worth of stock is owned out of i
town and none outside of the *tate. I
Many stockholders are young mea and ;
boys now at work a: the benches. All !
labor employed is white with the ex- j
ception of a few negroes who drive ,
arays ana nanuie lumoer dujui me i
yards. An air of thrift, cleanliness ;
and prosperity pervades the entire
town. There is nothing about the
work that is degrading mentally, morally
or physically. It Is no uncommon
thing for the sons of the richest
men in the town to begin by turning a
lathe by the side of men who support
their families on $1 a day or less. The
furniture factory has made High Point
what it is to-day, and already it ;
widely known as a furniture manufacturing
town.
Limestone Hosiery Mill.
The Limestone Hosiery Mills is the
cerrect title of the new knitting plant
announced last week as contracted for
at Athens. Ala. This company has efi
fected permanent organization with J.
' W. Frost, president: Robert L. Henj
dricks. secretary-treasurer, and P. W.
I Hendricks, manager. The building |
j contracted for will be 30x60 feet in
I size, of brick, two stories high. and
will cost about $2500. The daily capacity
of the plant will be 200 dozen
pairs of children's and misses' hose,
employes will number fifty, and the
i investment of capital will be $15,0*-0.
Oil Mill For Jacksonville.
Plan3 are on foot to have a cotton
oil mill running in tkte city by about
October 15. The mill, which is to ha
built by Tennessee capitalists, will be
known as the Florida Cotton Oil Mill.
It will be a very large plant, with the
capacity of crushing 100 tons, of seed
a day. It will give employment to between
75 and 100 heads of families.
! Later on cottages for these mill hands
| will probably be built. The stock is
$100,000.?Jacksavillc Metropolis.
Industrial Miscellany.
I It is stated that a paper mill for
I utilizing the fiber from cottonseed
, hulls is about to be located at Houston,
Texas. Panics from Mississippi
have visited that city, and are looking
over the ground, and are well pleased
with the situation for such an ent* prise.
A plant with capac:? T-'Xy
tons a day may be established at a
cost of $35,000.
rvn thp fthittAhooche? and tribtitarv i
rivers during the year ending June "1
steamboats carried ll'O/OO ton-; of
freight, an increase of f.0,000 tons compared
with the preceding year.
Textile Notes.
The first bale of Texas cotton was
sold in New York at nine cents a
pound.
Col. J. L. Power is endeavoring to
organize a $100,000 cotton factory company
at Jackson. Miss.
The Itasca (Texas) Cottoh Manufacturing
Co.. now building mill, ha^ in- '
creased capital frcm $100,0- 0 to $150,- :
000. i
It is reported that the Woodstock ;
Cotton Mills. Anni-ton, Ala., has pia- ;
ced orders for additional machinery. {1
This plant was completed recently. b> i
lr.a built for 5.(00 spindles. j
It Is. said Andrew Carn?E'e still has ,l
{280,000.000 to give away in public ben- '
efactions.
The National Council of Educators
adopted the report of the National University
Committee that 110 bill yet of;
fered in Congress is practicable.
Carl Jansen. supposed to bo Ir.s^no,
murdered a woman a::d is said to have
horribly mutilated a little girl in Don
ver. Col.
What is believed to have be^n Father
Marquette's crucifix was ur. r.rrheJ at
Frankfort, Mich.
President T. J. Sitaer. of the Ama'ga- <
mated Association of Ircn. S:c i and i
Tin Workers, says the strikers a. the j j
trust mills will accept n*) compromise j ,
j.
MINISTERS TO AGREE
Upon the Lisposition of the Province
of Manchuria.
SETTLING CHINESE QUESTIONS,
The Part Which Russia Claims Now
Open?Complications Are Lik-Jy to
Result.
Washington, D. C., Specil.?It is un- ^
derstood to be the desire of some ct
the great powers that the disposition
of Manchuria should go before the
nvaisteis at Pckiu and be finally determined
by a joint agreement among
the powers. Although no definite
srep Lns boon tuber, in that direction,
it is bfh g dim sped by f oreign representatives
stationed here, who fully
expect that the plan will ha adopted.
Russia, it is expected, will be reluctant
to agree to it.
Attention has been directed to the
matter by reports that Russia had resumed
direct negotiations with China
concerning Manchuria, and also by
yesterday's cablegram stacing that a
Russian proclamation wa:; about to is
sue establishing Nu Chvang as a Russian
port. As to the i?*ro:t that Russia
will proclaim Nu Chvang to be a
Russian port, it is icin-ed out in official
diplomatic quarters that Nu
Chwang i3 a treaty port end as such
is open to the commerce cf the world,
under the existing tan'i'f regulations
with China, and foreign merchants
have the right to trade aud to conduct
estAbP&linteri * there These rights
of trade could not be divested, in the
opinion of diplomatic officials, by a
Russian proclamation unless the powers
had previously given assent. Thus
far there has been no request from
Russia or China for any change In the
status of Nu Chwang as one of the
fflatv nnrfo
v? yys* w
In a spirit which has aroused the
keenest admiration of the State Department,
the Japanese government
has met the difficulty growing out of
the preference of her request for an
increase of her indemnity, owing to
depreciation in selling prices of Japanese
bonds, by withdrawing that request
The result is ? substantial
loss to Japan. She asked originally
for $23,000,000. This figure was more
moderate than any of the powers
which took any prominent part in the
Chinese campaign and represented
the barest expense of the undertaking.
It was fixed upon the idea that
the payment was to be made in cash >
by China, Confederated with the bend
payment the Japanese asked that tho
allowance be increased to $27,000,000
in bonds to make good the loss she
would suffer through the sale of the
bonds. As soon as seme of the other
nations found that the allotment as ?
originally fixed was in danger of being
UiSturbed they came in with
increased demands and thus it is that
Japan, finding that insistence upon
her demand would blockade the negotiations
at tliis phase, ha3 withdrawn
her request for the present
at least It is safe to assume that the
United States government will dc
what it can to secure compensation
for Japan.
Mr. Rockbill, our special commissioner
at Pekin. has been instructed
to give the assent of the United States
to the proposition to increase the
Chinese customs dues Ir- order to provide
means for the payment of the
international indemnity. Our government
is still opposed to this project
and the instruction is sent only in
deference lo the universal wish for
a speedy conclusion of the negotiations
at Pekin. It is learned that the
hitch in these negotiations, the most
bafhing that has yet occurred, is due
cr?irr.i,r t.-, t|)p ispuo raised as to tk?
Increase of customs
Diseasp Killing Georgia Cotton.
Vaiiosta, Ga., Special.?V/. A. Or
:on, an assistant patrot ci me oepanaent
of Agriculture, at Washington,
?vho has been here for r. v. cek investigating
a disease which has been killng
cotton, says the disease is caused
jy fungus in the soil which clogs the ^
,easels in the stalk and causes the
)L::t to wilt. He says when the fungus
>uce gets into the soil it will live as
org as cotton is planted upon that
toil.
A Bottle Truss.
Wheeling. W. Va., Spec*;n 1 ?The lat /? ?
f-? Kti f irnic.l ic r\f fl nf
>t tvy iwi ti<Mv
jia.:?. 'i or tie-makers. Ti:<-. e are about
?0 nuikirs of class battl in the Unlt1
States. and every nr.- vis brought
nto the combination hel l a: a meeting
n Chicago. July li. Ti e v a *>. tali sat ion
s 0).0?j0. The oT.c : i . 'e.-t-J are:
t-\ G. Park, c! this cay; G. Vast, of
"Jci'.a.re; F. \V. Brrcn. of Indiana,
reosurer; J. G. II. Port1 r. of Chicago,
secretary. The far: of the combination
<-. "r-\ y.er: a profound secret. The
ij;i.!.c'j ;tte effect of the combination
ivas an advance of prices.