The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 28, 1905, Image 2
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j| By James M. Beck,
Former Assistant Attorney'General of the United States.
HE signs of the times indicate a growing feeling of social
I I discontent, which finds its chief expression in the indiscrimI
I inate abuse of wealth. Apart from the baser passion of
111 class hatred there is now in progress a searching inquiry
in the great court of public opinion as to the ethical signitiW
I cance of money and money-making.
I The underlying causes of the agitation are complex, but
its net effect will probably be for good. This discontent is
due to a profound dissatisfaction with the code of commercial
morals. Abuses of trust have run riot. They are not, as I believe, due to
the fact that men are essentially less honest than previous generations, but
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in part to the intoxication that inevitamv marKea tne most r?piu auu v**.ordinary
period of commercial expansion that the world has ever known, and
also to the artificial character of our commercial machine.
The complex subdivision of social office have caused a certain diffusion,
fh d'\ iberefore, weakening of moral responsibility. That artificial creation of
e la* the corporation?with the legal fiction that it is a moral personality,
as een a Pandora box, from which infinite good and evil has proceeded. A
corporation with many thousand stockholders does an act which benefits
itself while injuring the public, but the sense of individual responsibility of
each stockholder for the wrong done becomes so attenuated as to lose any
appreciable existence, while its officers, who in whole or part are directly
responsible, are too apt to feel that as trustees for the stockholders they must
subordinate their personal views of what is right or wrong to the welafre of
the corporation.
No error is more common than that American people have an inordiantn
lo\e of money-making, unless it be the graver error than modern industrialism
has debauched human society and that we are worse than our fathers.
E\ery adverse comment that the ultra pessimists can make of this generation
can be applied with infinitely greater force to preceding ones, and I
do not exclude the epic period of our national life. The evils which exist
now existed then, but on the credit side of the ledger, what immeasurably
intellectual and moral progress distinguish this industrial age! ^
Is the struggle for wealth greater today than before? Are men the slaves
of business that they once were? On the contrary, men of other generations
worked harder to secure less and the cultivated relation of the modern
financier was wholly unknown to them.
No charge is more false than that we are a monev-loving people. No people
of any time or clime ever cared less for money when earned than we.
Prodigality of expenditure rather than a narrow desire to hoard unnecessary
wealth is the distinguishing characteristic of the average American. If he
has a strong purpose and an earnest desire to amass wealth, it is in most
^ cases because money is the necessary material for further constructive work.
To achieve rather than to acquire is his ambition.
The entire edifice of the commercial world rests upon fair dealing. The
true capital of the banker is confidence. His nominal capital is a mere conto
nublie oDinion. There are unquestionably broken contracts, but
their number is infinitesimal in comparison with the many that are kept with
scrupulous fidelity.
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J How to Make a Speech jb
S By Elmer E. Rogers, 3
'The Well Known Chicago Lawyer. |
O not forget that public speaking is good conversation; dcn't
J J yell, and, therefore, talk over the heads of your auditors;
Z I "X Z do uot talk at tl'.em, but to them. When practicable, a good
J B B 2 i(lea is 10 scan ttie faces of your hearers, beginning at the
Z front on your left, and proceeding from left to right, back
MOttC)|| anc* forth, until you have observed the occupant of the last
4 *~ * seat on your right 111 the rear of your audience. People are
3C?t>? flattered by the speaker noticing them; besides, it helps to
"hypnotize"' your audience.
Gesture is the only universal language; combined with the language of
countenance. It is understood by the entire world, fnr it is the language of nature.
Prepare a few sentences with appropriate gestures, and your audience
will believe you to be a past master in the art of gesticulation. To thrill an
audience you must arrange sentences and accompanying gestures so that both
at the same time shall reach the climax in your eloquence.
On stepping to the front of the platform have a full breath as you greet
your audience; surely never meet it with all your batteries run out. The
most eminent orators and actors stimulate their emotional nature by daily
drill in vocal exercises. A good practice is the repeating of the alphabet and
Its various sounds in different tones, pitch and force. Constant practice
clears and strengthens the vocal powers, as observed in newsboys, train callers
and auctioneers.
The most difficult of all oratory is the campaign political speech, and he
on whom the politicians agree as a first class "spellbinder" may by preparation
put up a good speech on any topic.
Outdoor speaking is perplexing. \s in the attempt to reach all hearers the
speaker is liable to pitch his voice loo high, which then does not carry so
well as a more natural tone. ir convenient speaK toward me noise or musn..
The less a speaker knows the longer it takes him to say it; therefore, cut
yotrr speeches short.
Ppblic speaking is a profession. Animal food promotes eloquence, and
the orator ought to have a good sleep just before his appearance to speak. No
one except a political candidate is obliged to shake hands and accept hospitality;
avoid this physical drain before spiking.
The orator of today must be a student, reader, thinker, and writer;
in olden times the orator was a disseminator of knowledge, but now the public
itself is quite well informed.
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By 3J. C. Butler.
fWWBC N army, as Napoleon said, "fights on its belly"; so does
M jf I a modern warship. Its belly is its furnaces, which need to
I I be fed constantly with coal. The question of coal-supply,
7T I then, is as vital to a ship as is that of food-supply to an
I army. Attempts have been made by maritime nations to
I ^ ^ M solve it by the erection of coaling stations in different parts
M f of the world, where their vessels may stop when their
bunkers need refilling. Great Britain has some thirty or
more such coaling stations; the United States have a halfdozen
or so. and want more. Guantanamo, Guam, Oonlaska, are some of ours
?besides, of course/the navy yards and naval stations on the American continent.
But most naval men see that coaling stations do not in themselves
solve the problem. In war they may well be elements of weakness, necessitating
defence forces of some size to prevent their capture by the enemy.
The United States attached colliers to their fleets during the Spanish war,
and so partially solved the problem?but only partially.
The very gTeat importance, then, of being able to coal without regard
to tho weather?so long, of course, as there is no actual storm?is thus apparent;
and all maritime nations have been trying to devise some plan that
will enable their ships to refill their bunkers at sea. As has been said, apparatus
for coaling at sea was installed on ten vessels of the Russian second
thev lpft the Baltic, and naval officers have been
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waiting to learn if it was used, and if so. with what success.
Apparatus of the same system has been adopted by the British navy
after considerable experiment, and is now being installed on the new vessels.
Germany has adopted the system used by Russia and Great Britain, merely
specifying that the apparatus be "made in Germaay." For the system is an
American invention, the device of Spencer Miller, a New York engineer.?
Harper's Weekly.
The English Luggage Porter. .. ..
On one occasion an excess porter 1 Fate of West Virginia's Biggest Tree,
said to a traveler, "I see as your lug- I The largest tree in West Virginia,
gago is overweight, sir." the b!g elm on the Hood farm near
"Ah! your visionary powers are Shinnston, is to be cut down imfar
too acut*Wor me, my friend." mediately because it stands in the
"Sir," with* grunt like a pig. right of way of the Fairmont and
"I say you can see too well for me." Clarksburg Traction Company s pro"Ah!
to be sure, sir. I take you?" posed car line.
"Could you see as well now if you ^is tree mac*e fam?us b>
had sixpence over one eye?" a aove1, Th? Uai,sbter of the Elm,
"Well. I don'? know, sir; but I'm ?ne,ofKth? Palpal characters of the
well sure as I couldn't see at all if book having lived almost in its shad.
.. ____ D. ow. The elm is eleven feet across and
Id another over t other! -T. P.. w{]1 be ^ for ^ UefJ fm th#
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Scenes of Wild Disorder at Speakin;
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TILLMAN AND TOWILL HITCHED
Senator Tillman Hurled Lies at Newspapers
and Prohibitionists in His
Speech at Batesburg Saturday.
Latesbur*:, Special.?The mo.-t o.\eiliny
political meeting i?i South Carolina
since the stirring days of 189293
was held here Saturday.
W,R P Tillman and Col. JollM
SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN
Weather Conditions Given Out by the
Department Observer.
The South Carolina section of the |
climate and crop service of the Department
of Agriculture issues the
following ollicial bulletin of weather
and crop conditions for the past
week:
The mean temperature for the week
ending Monday, September 18th, was
slightly below normal, due to very
cool weather early in the week and
warm at its close. The extremes of
temperature were a maximum of 9(1
degrees at Blackville on the 12th and
a minimum of 57 degrees at Cheraw
on the 15th. There was slightly less
than the normal amount of bright
sunshine over the southern and eastern
counties and about norma! amount
in the central and western counties.
There were numerous showers over
the eastern and southern counties
and very little rain, in many places
none, over the western ones. Excessive
rainfall occurred in Florence and
Darlington counties, m the iatter
there were S inches recorded in 21
hours. Lands were washed, streams |
Hooded and bridges earned away, and
crops were seriously damaged on uplands
as well as low lands. Generally
the week's precipitation was
iiu'ded and proved beneficial. Over
The western and northern counties the
ground is very dry and late crops
are suffering lor moisture. Streams
and wells are becoming low. and it
is too dry for fall plowing and for
seeding oats.
Frequent showers interrupted farm
work along the coast and to a lesser
degree in a few interior southern
counties, while the weather was lavarable
for continuous work over the
greater portion of the State.
There was a slight deterioation in
the condition of cotton due, mainly,
to premature opening caused by rust
and drought. On sandy lands the
crop is nearly al open and most of it
picked while over the Stale generally
it is opening fast. Growth and fruitage
have stopped, hut this is immaterial
as what fruitage would be
^iken on after this time would not
mature. Caterpillars have appeared
in Berkeley county on cotton, which
is the only rejxirt of damage by insects
this week.
Late corn is in need of rain. There
is a slight dcterioaticn of minor crops
due to want of moisture. Over the
western parts and a slight improvement
in the eastern portions. Fall
truck has improved, and recently
planted seeds are germinating well.
Rice harvest made good progress.
.Much hay and other forage was saved
in prime condition.
Siys Hold Cotton.
Mr. K. I). Smith, State president
of the Southern Cotton Association,
has given out an interview in which
he said:
* I am just back from a trip in the
eastern section of the State and I find
that ail of the cotton is practically
open and in some sections gathered.
The out turn is far below what was
anticipated before picking began.
There is no top crop at all, and the
entire picking with the force of hands
now available, will, according to the
statement of the best posted farmers,
be completed entirely by the loth of
October.
''The out turn of the lint from the
seed is shorter than it has been in
"1 wish to call attention to the
farmers of this State to the government
report issued this week, in which
it is said that there was a deterioation
on sandy lands, but that the clay
lands were green and growing. This
will give some idea of the misleading
statements that are sent in officially
and unofiiciallv to the trade, which
help to depress the market temporarily.
"1 have traveled over the entire
Piedmont section with the exception
of some ftew patches too small to be
worthy of note. There is a universally
arrested development. The
squares Lave been shed, the leaves
are yellow, and the condition of the
cotton generally is no better than that
in the lower section of tue sandy
lands.
''Reports are coming in that the
farmers are selling their cotton regardless
of the price, which is also
untrue. I am in a position to give a
better estimate of the South Carolina
crop, I presume, than any other one
man. I hope that I am honest enough
and fair minded enough and truthful
enough not to attempt to deceive myself
or those who have placed confidpnpp
in mp_ nr trndp at larere: and T
unhesitatingly say that from the present
indications, this is the smallest
crop that has been made on the same
acreage in four or fiv$ years. The final
out turn will prove what I say.
Holding Cotton in York.
Rock Hill. Special.?That the farmers
in this section are determined to
hold their cotton for the price fixed
by the association seems to be very
well understood as for about the first
time in the history of the town, wagons
loaded with cotton have been
taken home again because the price
offered was too small. It is understood
that this has ben done in several
cases recently since cotton went down.
State News Notes.
A special from Ilonea Path to
Monday's Columbia State says: About
three miles below here in Abbeville
county Sunday af' ernoon just before
sunset Sam and Jyi Moore, two white
men, got into a. flifiieultv with Allen
Pendleton and another negro. A fight
followed in wh7% Jim Moore was
cut and killed by Pendleton. Pendleton
escaped and was captured by a
crowd about half a mile below here.
He was carried back to the scene of
the killing and shot by about a dozen
men.
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OVTlKllUl L> At. AiiiiUM.t
Bell Towill, member of the State
board of directors, clashed in debate
and for several minutes the scene in
the opera house, which was filled to
overflowing, was one of indescribable
confusion.
"According to the published advertisement
for bids for liquor.*' said
Senator Tillman, "110 bids for-less
than $1.50 for X will be considered.*'
Advancing from his seat in the mdience
Col. Towill, in a voice fifed
with excitement and emotion, said"Senator
Tillman, that is falsr; von
know that is not so!" Great applause
followed this statement, mingled with
shouts for Tillman and Towill. Baring
the cheering and confusion Tillman
turned to those sealed on the
platform and said: "Where is the
mayor, where is the mayorf* Quickly
facing the audience which was tq on
its Met and apparently struggling
ti.u-M-il tiie staee he stood as if a mar
ble statue. Cries ot' "sit down; Ik1
quiet; go back to your seats." were
uttered by those on the platform and
some of the auditors.
Hardly hail quiet been restored
when the aired Kev. Mr. D. M. Padgett
of Saluda arose and interrogated
Tillman as to his attacks ujK>n tiie
preach.ers which resulted in another
stormy scene and the no.ee made it
iniiMissihle to record the warm colloquy
which ensued.
Senator Tillman bitterly assailed
the newspapers, naming The News
and Courier but The State ia particular,
for their attacks upon him.
"That hell hound in Columbia, who
is editor of The State, ha* told enough
lies on me to build a railroad of
crossties to hell," declared "illnan iu
one of his heated moments.
Tillman paid his respects to Former
Senator .John L. McLaurin, saying
that he considered it ai insult to
be invited fo speak with bin.
The statement that the si-rmi'ore
of John He!! Tovill on the p'lit ion
which invited hint here was inderscored
foretold that the meet ng would
he an unusal one.
After the preliminaries Sena for
Tillman was introduced.
^ I made up my mind before speaking
at Marion that these sjieeches arc
useless," said the senator in opening
his remarks, "hut it will he different
next summer."
He said he was here on the invitation
of the mayor and hi) or 70 other
citizens to discuss the liquor question.
The invitation also stated that McLaurin
had been invited. He noticed
that the invitation contained one
name which was underscored; it was
that of John Bell Towill, whom all
present knew. It seemed to him then,
said he, that this was a challenge to
eonie to his home and say what he
had said elsewhere. "It appeared also
that in the imitation to address you
to a man with whom I had hat an
unpleasantness there was implied thallenge
that I would not be here and
would be accused of being afraid to
meet him. I never say anything that
1 would not say to a man's teeth. It
is a citizen's right to ask anybody to
speak. I have no reason to feel but
that all have iespect and {rood feeling
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lor me, out i ODjeci 10 uemg piai-cu
on the same plane with a man who has
betrayed his trust as a Democrat, a
man who in Washington is no longer
regarded as a Democrat. T grew a little
small and indignant."
He said he had obeyad orders as a
public servant and had maintained
the trust imposed in him and resented
the implication by which he had been
placed on a level with a man who had
betrayed his trust. He had said to
his teeth what he thought about his
(McLaurin's) actions.
"This is a Democratic question we
are to settle," he said with some
warmth, declaring that hewould not
! debate the dispensary with Republicans.
I am a Democrat and it is a
part of my business as national committeeman
to keep the party in line in
South Carolina. I resented the invitation
because McLaurin is not my
I equal. He is not my equal as a Democrat,
whoever else he may be. (Applause.)
Here the Senator took up the dispensary.
He said but for the good
women the men would have lost the
seed corn of genuine religion. Don't
believe in voting out the dispensary,
said he, that you will get rid of linnor.
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He said that only one-third of the
Democratic vote had been polled in the
five counties which had voted out the
dispensary.
T; -ing up the matter of petitions,
he i l anybody could sign a petition
*n a free "nigger," but anybody^tfridn't
vote. The question will
be settled next summer when all white
men will be able to vote. They have
tried six times to kill the dispensary
and had failed.
lie called the editors who have been
criticising the dispensary two-by-four
and three-for-a-quarter editors.
He had said lo the governor to remove
the Stifte board because they
have trampled the law under foot
and ignored many points in the law.
They don't buy under the competitive
system any longer. It was not his
business but the governor's.
Col. Towill Rises to Remark.
The board says in its advertisements
that no bid for X liquor for less than
$1.50 will be received.
Towill?"Senator Tillman, that is
false; you know that is not so."
Tillman?"You get the advertisement
then and prove it." i
Towill?"God knows
when you went to Cincinnati"
Tillman?"I didn't go to Cincinnati,
besides I had only $25,000 to buy
liquor for the whole State; I had to 1
buy liquor 011 credit because I didn't
have the money to pay for it."
"What about the request books, Mr.
Towill?"?The reply was lost in the
noise which followed.
Senator Tillman then said he had
met Mr. Towill on the train shortly
after his election on the hoard and
had congratulated him, telling him
that if he would get in the middle of
the road lit? would be all right, and
Towill said that was what he intended
to do. hut that he had played the
devil doing it.
Mr. Towill arose and said something
which was not heard by the correspondent,
to which Tillman replied:
"I haven't charged you with stealing."
"I am not here for any man, but
for a great issue which concerns every
home in South Carolina. ine Dars
have been let down one by one until
the cows have got in and ruined the
whole business," said Tillman.
When asked for a statement after
the meeting, Mr. Towill said:
"The State board in 1902-3 directed
attention to the matter of the excess
of stock in the main dispensary and
in all of the county dispensaries. Xo
action was taken.
"The labels were purchased by reason
of the suggestion of Senator Tillman
that all cheap case goods be cut
out and the estimate was made that
they would last about 15 months.
"As for the financial condition of
the dispensary when we went in. the
>"250,000 of old stock was worked off
by our board. The half million dollars
or more of outstanding obligations
have been paid off and today the dispensary
is practically out of debt."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The German Emperor wrote 7000 letters
last year.
Thomas A. Edison is said to contemplate
an extended tour of Europe.
Major Robert II". Montgomery, U. S.
A. (retired), died a few days ago at
his home in Washington from Bright's
disease.
Grand Duke Constantino of Russia is
said to be the most cultured Romanoff
now living. He has translated Shakespeare
into his native tongue.
James J. Hill, the railroad magnate,
celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday
on September 10 at a banquet given
bv Minneapolis business men.
Harry K. Devereux, of Cleveland, is
the only living model of tlie three who
posed for the famous painting. "Yankee
Doodle," portrayed by Willard.
Justin McCarthy says that his three
objects in life have been attained.
They were: To write books, to be a
member of parliament and to live iu
London.
Frederick Theodore Camp, the architect
who designed the Ocean Grove
Auditorium, died recently at his home
in Bloom field, N. J., of cirrhosis of the
liver. lie was fifty-six years old.
John (J rant I.awsou. Chairman of
committees and Deputy Speaker of the
British House of Commons, 011 his
mother's side is the grandson of the
original of one of Dickons' "Cheeryble
Brothers."
If Lord lemplemore, who lately celebrated
his eighty-fourth birthday, is
not the oldest peer he is without doubt
"father" of the House of Lords, of
which be has been a member for sixtythree
years.
Professor Theodore A. Schurr, who
has just died in Baltimore, was a pioneer
in the crusade against killing
birds for hat adornment. He bad a
collection of birds and butterflies represent
iug 50,000 specimens, valued at
about $100.000.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Kaiser Wilhelm II. receives from COO
to 700 letters and appeals daily.
A flawless 460-karat diamond lias
been found near Johannesburg, South
Africa.
A performing monkey named Dolly
Is being treated for pneumonia at the
Charing Cross Hospitori, London.
The first telegraphic longitude station
in Labrador has been established
at Chateau Bay by Dr. Otto Klotz.
The Government of India will send
four graduate students to Cornell University
to take special work iu agriculture^
Many Chinese in Araoy were poisoned,
owing to an attempt to smuggle
morphia into the country iu a flour
shipment.
The word "smog" has been added to
the language to describe the combination
of smoke and fog which so often
darkens London streets.
George Ade's farm covers 000 acres.
He has named it "Hazelden," and it is
near Kentland, Did. It pays him eight
per cent, on his investment.
Texas, in the fiscal years 1000 and
1007, will pay $000,000 to Confederate
veterans for pensions, besides expending
$154."-?8 for the support of the Confederate
H#me.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. the sculptor,
lias completed his plans and is now
working on the clay model of his
statue of Mark Hanna, which is to be
erected in Cleveland.
A club has been formed by deaf
women of Berlin. A hundred members
meet weekly in Wilhelm Strasse.
where they drink tea as they converse
hum iii aii in
Occurrences of Interest in Various
Parts of tho State.
John Miller Convicted of Attempting
Foison.
Laurens. Special.?In the court of
general sessions John Miller, a youngnegro
farm hand, was convicted of
administering poison with intent to
kill and was given a sentence of ten
years in the State prison. The indictment
under which Miller was tried
charged Wash Carwile and Miller
with attempting to poison an entire
family, consisting of Mr. E. W. Ferguson,
who resides near Clinton, his
wife, mother, an aunt and some of
the colored servants and hands employed
on the place, by placing in
the well, from which everv 'me on the
premises used wafer, a bag containing
a snake's head, a frog, a lizzard
and a quantity of stuff said to have
been a composition of match heads
and other things of a poisonous character.
The fact that Mr. Feign eon
and other members of the family became
ill about the same time led to
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an investigation wmcn reveaieu me
presence of the horrible mixture ia
the drinking water.
Seven Men Arrested For Pendleton's
Murder.
Abbeville, Special.?John Marion
Ashley, J. R. Moore, Josh Moore. John
Mot>re, Will Moore, Sam Rigbv and
Hugh Bowen. charged with the killing
of Allen J'endleton near Honea
Path, were lodged in the Abbeville
coftnty jail last week. Sheriff Lyon
stated that he was informed while on
his way to make the arrests that the j
prisoners were armed with Winchester
rifles and would resist arrest to
the hitter end. This did not deter
the sheriff, who proceeded to make
the arrests, which was done without
resistance. The prisoners made 110
attempt to escape and submitted
willingly to arrest. All of them were
at ti e home of J. Marion Ashley, near
Donalds, except Hugh Bowen, who
came to Abbeville and gave himself
up to the sheriff.
Theological Seminary.
Columbia, Special.?The Columbia J
Theological seminary resumed its
work, there being an increased attendance
of students. The graduating
class is larger than usual and the lower
classes have an increased attendance.
The opening exercises were
addressed by Rev. W. M. McPheeters.'
D. I)., chairman of the faculty, and
Rev. William Morrison, D. D, The
members of the faculty are: Dr. McPheeters,
Rev. Wm. T. Hall, D. D.,
Rev. R. C. Reid, D. J)., and Rev.
Henry Alexander White, D. D.
Palmetto Briefs.
A large number of the colleges and
high schools of the State opened
last week. All of them report increased
attendance and much interest.
The Southern Power Company announces
that it will soon begin the
building of a railroad sixty miles
long, from Harmony, a station on the
Seaboard Air Line, to Camden.
A number of people attended the
farmers' meeting Monday at Richland
where President Smith and Treasurer
Hyatt made enthusiastic speeches
Maj. Wm. J. Stribling was present
by invitation and also spoke. The
meeting was well attended and intensified
the interest that means so much
to the farmers and others.
The Chester county cotton association
will stick by their brothers elsewhere.
At the recent meeting a resolution
was unanimously adopted endorsing
the action of the Asheville
committee in fixing 11 cents as the
minimum price for cotton wherever
the same is practicable.
The State of Georgia wishes to establish
in this State a rifle range for
the use of the troops of that commonwealth.
The troops which would use
it are those from the city of Augusta
and its location in South Carolina is
because there is no desirable site in
Georgia adjacent to the city just mentioned.
At a meeting of the stockholders
last week almost an entire new set of
officers were elected for the Union and
Buffalo cotton mills.
The Piedmont Pair.
Greenville, Special.?The success of
Mayor Mahon and the directors of the
Piedmont fair in securing subscriptions
to the fair to be held in November
has proven even greater than
their most sanguine hopes and the
mayor made the important announcment
that there had been raised or
promised by the merchants and others
the handsome sum of $3,500 for purses
on the races and for premiums for
exhibits.
To a Child.
The leaves talked In the twilight, dear;
Hearken the tale they told;
How. in some far-off place and year.
Before the world grew old.
I was a dreaming forest-tree
You were a wild, sweet bird
That sheltered at the heart of me
Because the north wind stirred.
How. when the chjdlng gale was still,
When peace fell soft on fear.
You stayed one golden hour to fill
My dream with singing, dear.
To-night, the self-same songs are sung
The first green forest heard;
My heart and the gray world grow young
To shelter you. my bird.
?Sophie Jewett, in Scrlbner's.
The fiscal year 1904-05 was a record
breaking one In commerce and
Industry, observes the New York Tribune.
Our foreign trade rose in
value to $2,635 970,000?the greatest
total In our history. Our exports
were larger than ever before, and so
were our Imports. Our industrial activity
was everywhere Intensified,
and the demand for labor thus created?
drew to our shores an unprecedented
number of Immigrants.
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in the sign language or with the aid or
ear trumpets.
Mrs. Mildred Dewey, wife of Admiral
Dewey, has returned to the
Twenty-eighth Alabama Regiment the
flag captured at Orchard Knob during
the Civil War by her first husband,
General Hazen.
Lake That Stores Heat.
There is a lake that stores the sun's
aeat at Medve, in northeastern Transylvania.
Thick beds of rock salt underlie
the district and similar formation
appears upon the surface in the
shape of mounds, some of them over
100 feet in height. Amongst these the
lake rests at fully 1,500 feet above sea
level. Upon the surface its water is
llmost sweet, four inches below there
is a twentieth of salt, at two feet there
Is one-fifth and at five feet the watei
is practically saturated with salt.
In September, after a summer's sun
shine the thermometer showed the
lake's waters to be 150 degrees foui
feet down. Even by April, after a
whole season of wintry weather, it
had only been reduced to 80 degrees.
Experiments have proved that this is
due to absorption and retention of the
sun's heat by the salt-saturated solution.?Montreal
Herald.
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Notes of Southern Cotton
Other Manufacturing Entcfl^HBHH
MAXTON, N. C. B
The Observer's correspondent
from a very reliable source
out-of-town capitalist who *1^ B|
much interested in buildirfg a large
cotton mill at this place, if a good Hjj
site can be had and some stock taken
by Maxton people. This, we are confident,
can be arranged, as there hace
been several land owners who have
vffered sites for this purpose, gratis, 1
and this means a mill in the near
future. One of the locations mentioned
above is adjacent to with the
Seaboard and Atlantic Coast Line
tracks, which would make shippinfc^'^
easy over either line. We hope to import
something definate on this soon.
NASHVILLE, TENN. \ /
Joe B. Morgan and his associates
have obtained a charter of incorporation
for the Warioto Cotton Mills,
with capital stock of $200,000. This
**'111 tol-n nn ifc nrnnAcifinn
tuui^auj tv in taav uivw ,
for purchasing and modernizing the '
Nashville Manufacturing Company
plant, which it has bought under
certain conditions pertaining to the
present lease. The general plan is to
have an equipment of 10,000 spindles
and 300 looms. The company was incorporated
by Mr. Morgan, Joseph H.
Thompson, William Nelson, EdwhTv. ';]
Warner and M. J. Smith.
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN.
The Elk Cotton Mills, are understood
to have planned the erection
of a dam to develop power which will
be converted into electricity and furnished
to operate a $60,000 cotton
factory which the company intends .
adding to its present plant. '
Charles Iceman, the -well-known
cotton mill manager, living at McColl, . 'rfj
S. C., is interested in plans which are *
being formulated at Cheraw, S. C., for
the organization of a cotton mill company
there. \';3
CHARLOTTE, N. C. j
A charter has quite recently been
obtained for another cotton mill here J
with a capital of $300,000. The in-j '
corporators are Messrs. E. A. Smith
and A. H. Washburn, of this city, and
and T. G. Cox, of Taunton, Mass.
Mr. Smith is president of the
Chadwick and Hoskins mills and Mr.
Washburn is the Southern agent of
the Saco-Pettee Machine shops, the
Crompton & Knowles Loom Works,
and other enterprises and is a man of duSj
affairs. It is an enterprise whose suecess
is assured.
HOUSTON, TEX. I
Inquiries have been receiver from i
parties connected witn two cotton
mills that are desirious of locating '-J
here, provided the proper encourage- W
ment 1a' received. ?>ne company is '
anxious to erect a $250,0<X) mill if
$150,000 is invested by local capital, - '*
and the other is a $100,000 concern,
with $25,000 capital, anxious to receive
assistance from local capitalAn
investigation of the propositions
is being made, as it is admitted that ^ t *3
Houston needs a large cotton mill.
GASTONIA, N. C. .
The new Monena Mill, is now complete,
as far as outward appearances
i re concerned. It has added considerably
to the attractiveness of the otheir
two mills?Modena Nos. 1 and2?
though the best street on the hill had
to be crossed by the building.
windows and the roof are now complted
and there remains nothing tobe
done but ?o put in the machinery.
This is being brought ir now and will
soon be installed. The mill will be
ready for operation by the time its
promoters had planned for it to begin.
Upheaval in Colombia.
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| .fiin tl m?1, t5y mUIC.~UUtUUUi UJVVk .-a
reports have reached here to the effect
that General Raffael Reyes, President
of Colombia, declared himself dictator
on September 8th, and Imprisoned
the members of the Supreme Court
at Bogota. Mobs, angered by this action,
attacked the presidential palace
and Were fired on by troops, who killed . |
many of the rioters. The report says
that revolutions have started in Anfioqula
and Santander.
Textile Notes. 4
The Colleton Cotton Mills, at Walterboro,
S. C'., were sold at auction
in that city recently under order of
the United States District Court, for
$53,050. John F. Lucas, president of
the Coileton Banking Company,
in<; i he purchaser. The upset price
was M\ed ul $45,000 by thu court.
There were two other bi'!.!e?fc
The Monroe (N. C.) Cotton Mills
will add looms and discontinue mak- s
ing yarns. It is hoped to have the
chauged condition in operation by
February loth.
The Eastman, Ga., Cotton Mills
have recently been enlarged, and will
be given every advantage possible.
On October 1 they will open up under
reorganization, and their domestic
and export facilities will be augumented
because of the fact that they
l>ave confidence in the approaching, .
price of cotton.
The Brenham, Texas, Cotton Mill
is being enlarged to the extent of onethird
more than its former capacity.
A prominent capitalist and cotton
mill man iiom a neighboring town
was in Statesville recently looking
over the field with a view to inventing
in a new cotton mill, with $100,000
r-;,pital, that will, in ail probability,
be organized there .M>on.
The Hatton Shoals Power Company
lias been organized at Anderson,
S. C., with a capital stock of $150,000.
It will provide electric power from its
plant on the Tuggalee river, 16 miles
from Anderson, for a number of cot- i
ton manufacturing plants in the vi- J
cinity. M
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